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EAST OF SANTA FE/PECOS WILDERNESS (2002)Lithograph by David Conn
27.94 x 38.1 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 17.78 x 25.4cm (actual image size)
£210.3
Artwork description
This is the capstone of my trip to the Pecos Wilderness starting with Iron Gate and ending with East of Santa Fe. Tomorrow I pack up, sign out at the ranger station, leave a note in the journal to fellow campers and hikers saying nothing happened out of the ordinary. Just stay on or wander off trails, look forward as well as back, listen to the quiet, embrace the mist and warmth on your back. The hike up to the vantage point was difficult. The last twenty yards almost straight up, with my camera slung over my back, on hands and knees to prevent it from slamming on rocks and fallen timbers. Once I arrived at the top there was no definitive view of the ski basin, unlike Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai. Mine is not an illustration but an interpretation of the journey. By making a small opening in the upper left of the print, that acts as an escape, reveals the sky and hint of mountain. The underbrush is a tangle of leaves and overlapping branches filling the lower portion of the composition. All this visual commotion is anchored by one vertical pine tree whose right branch, starting out of the clutter reaches upwards to rest in the upper left corner of the composition. There is a Japanese saying, “to bathe in the forest,” is to be engrossed in all its wonder, its fleeting moments of quick light and subtle darks, its trickling sounds of water, its shifts of wind and moments of heat cooling light into dusk.
My last dinner is usually what ever is left. In this case, pork and beans with a hotdog. I cut it into bite sized pieces and cook and eat it right out of the can. I take pride in having good equipment, starting with all weather rain gear, after being soaked while fishing at Broken Bow, Oklahoma. I decided to spend the cash and upgrade by ordering a rain coat from Orvis, an outfitter in Maine. It was a light weight version, used by traditional Atlantic commercial fishermen, and can be identified in paintings/etchings of Winslow Homer. Mine is camel colored with black sleeves where buttons are replaced with zippers and velcro grips. I could see a storm coming, the wind started to pick up. I finished heating my dinner and with vice grips for a handle started eating. The rain came hard, water flowed over my lowered head, filled the can. I poured the water off, the beans got cold. I thought this must look pathetic but then I laughed. It is truly bathing in the forest.
Materials used:
Daniel Smith Traditional Black Relief Ink on Zerkall Book Smooth Cream over Stonehenge White 250gm
Details:
- Lithograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 50
- Size: 27.94 x 38.1 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 17.78 x 25.4cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#shadow#nature#forest#fishing#wood#new mexico#trails#hiking#serinity#wild lands
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Artwork description
This is the capstone of my trip to the Pecos Wilderness starting with Iron Gate and ending with East of Santa Fe. Tomorrow I pack up, sign out at the ranger station, leave a note in the journal to fellow campers and hikers saying nothing happened out of the ordinary. Just stay on or wander off trails, look forward as well as back, listen to the quiet, embrace the mist and warmth on your back. The hike up to the vantage point was difficult. The last twenty yards almost straight up, with my camera slung over my back, on hands and knees to prevent it from slamming on rocks and fallen timbers. Once I arrived at the top there was no definitive view of the ski basin, unlike Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai. Mine is not an illustration but an interpretation of the journey. By making a small opening in the upper left of the print, that acts as an escape, reveals the sky and hint of mountain. The underbrush is a tangle of leaves and overlapping branches filling the lower portion of the composition. All this visual commotion is anchored by one vertical pine tree whose right branch, starting out of the clutter reaches upwards to rest in the upper left corner of the composition. There is a Japanese saying, “to bathe in the forest,” is to be engrossed in all its wonder, its fleeting moments of quick light and subtle darks, its trickling sounds of water, its shifts of wind and moments of heat cooling light into dusk.
My last dinner is usually what ever is left. In this case, pork and beans with a hotdog. I cut it into bite sized pieces and cook and eat it right out of the can. I take pride in having good equipment, starting with all weather rain gear, after being soaked while fishing at Broken Bow, Oklahoma. I decided to spend the cash and upgrade by ordering a rain coat from Orvis, an outfitter in Maine. It was a light weight version, used by traditional Atlantic commercial fishermen, and can be identified in paintings/etchings of Winslow Homer. Mine is camel colored with black sleeves where buttons are replaced with zippers and velcro grips. I could see a storm coming, the wind started to pick up. I finished heating my dinner and with vice grips for a handle started eating. The rain came hard, water flowed over my lowered head, filled the can. I poured the water off, the beans got cold. I thought this must look pathetic but then I laughed. It is truly bathing in the forest.
Materials used:
Daniel Smith Traditional Black Relief Ink on Zerkall Book Smooth Cream over Stonehenge White 250gm
Details:
- Lithograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 50
- Size: 27.94 x 38.1 x 2.54cm (unframed) / 17.78 x 25.4cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#shadow#nature#forest#fishing#wood#new mexico#trails#hiking#serinity#wild lands