“I’m fascinated that Morandi made a floor plan for the location and color. Is this true?”

John Baldessari, 2009

Conceptualized in large-scale oil paintings of light and space re-created in tonally subtle palettes expressive of Morandi’s original color and presence, and inspired by his landscape paintings of Grizzana Morandi, Italy, I worked from a series of eight large-scale oil paintings created over eighteen months. Living amongst their presence in the studio for some time, I began to photograph them intuitively, using specific vantage points and aperture settings until I fell upon a state of visual flux alluding both to the feelings elicited when viewing Morandi’s landscapes, and my own personal concepts of place and being.

For me, these photographic abstractions lend a critical component to questions I confront arising from the interstice of realism and abstraction in my current work, inwardly reflecting a “bright, fresh, light”of what I envision to have been Morandi’s beloved Bologna, postured today from my own state of being on the coast of Maine.

What one envisions, as either artist or viewer, is what one sees in one’s own life.

After Landscape 1942