Places That Could Be Real

 Canyon Wall 2

I recently read a delightfully imaginative novel by Ursula K. LeGuin, "Changing Planes".

In it, the narrator discovers that due to bad food, awful seating

and boredom, travelers awaiting their late flights in airports can learn

how to visit  other "planes" or cultural worlds.

"She had discovered that, by a mere kind of twist and slipping bend,

easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere---be anywhere---

because she was already between planes."

I've been working on some imaginary landscapes using only black and white paint

and they seem to resonate to LeGuin's premise. Although I am not stuck in an airport,

I think that artists transport themselves to alternate planes all the time!

My  only intention for these paintings was to open myself to the organic, the wild, the out of doors,

using memory of past experiences, and calling upon landscape painting techniques

I've used in the past.  

 Mud Season On Vetiver Island

They have become places that could be real!

The photos somehow add  some  bluish color to these 18x14 paintings on wood panels,

all done  using only white paint and black gesso mix, and charcoal.

Under The Bridge At Winter Pass
The three pieces all feel a little dream-like but familiar,
as if  I am indeed a visitor to landscapes that exist
peripherally and very near!