When I first set out to paint "Fields in Motion," I didn’t think about abstraction right away. I was just looking at the farmland around me, the fields stretching out to the horizon. If you have seen some of my other landscape paintings you know how different this is from what I have been creating before. I wanted to capture that, but I knew it wasn’t just about what I saw. It was about what I felt, too.
The Horizon Line: Where Reality Meets the Abstract
The horizon line is where I started. It’s that line where the earth meets the sky, where everything we see ends. But it’s also where my imagination begins. In this painting, the horizon isn’t just a line; it’s a boundary between the known and the unknown. It’s the place where the real world starts to fade, and something else starts to take shape.
Crop Rows: Lines That Lead to Something More
The white lines in the painting represent crop rows, but they’re not just that. They’re the marks of human hands on the earth, the patterns we create as we try to bring order to nature. But as I painted, those lines became something more. They started to point towards something beyond the fields, something that couldn’t be seen, only felt.
The Wind: A Force You Can’t See
"Fields in Motion” refers to something you can’t really see—the wind. You can see what it does, how it moves the crops, how it shapes the landscape, but the wind itself is invisible. That’s what I tried to capture in this painting. The wind moves through the lines and the horizon, making the whole scene come alive in a way that’s more about feeling than seeing.
The Essence of Abstraction: Seeing Beyond the Surface
When I look at this painting now, it’s not just a picture of farmland. It’s something deeper. The longer you look at it, the more it becomes something else. The reality of the fields and the horizon starts to fade, and what’s left is something more abstract, more real in a way that’s hard to put into words. It’s like the painting is saying, “Look beyond what you see. There’s more here than meets the eye.”
Finding Meaning in the Abstract
In the end,"Fields in Motion” is about more than just a landscape. It’s about the way we see the world, the way we find meaning in the patterns and lines that surround us. It’s about the dance between reality and abstraction, and how that dance can show us something deeper, something more real than what we see on the surface.
