Monday, February 22, 2021

On Seeing

 

Spring, Mink Cove Marsh, 2021, Oil on Panel Diptych, 36"x48"

I painted a single canvas of this view many years ago and decided to take a new go at the same view when my gallery (Rogers at the River Shops) requested some larger works for a specific display.  Under new ownership and associated more closely with the attached design studio, the gallery will set aside an area for my work and display it in a vignette that illustrates how the work would appear in a home.

Below is a section of a poem I came across by Fernando Pessoa.  

The essential thing is knowing how to see,

Knowing how to see without thinking,
Knowing how to see when you see,
And not thinking when you see
Nor seeing when you think.

But this (alas for those of us whose souls wear clothes!)
This requires long study,
An apprenticeship of unlearning.
Fernando Pessoa