Title: Horizon

Media: Colored pencil on Canson's black

Size: 18" x 24"

Framing: unframed

Price or Current disposition: $300

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Comments: Fairly early on in the Horizon series I started playing with different elements on the horizons like squares, stars, spheres, and rectangular shapes. I also started playing with the proportions of the bars (the spaces between them and the widths of the bars) used to subdivide the views. As the series progressed the "Patterns in Space" series evolved out of these minimalist horizons although I would occasionally go back and make simple ones even much later. Even now, if I have been away from the drawing board for a long time I will get back into the zone with a simple expansive horizon. I'm not quite sure what the squares symbolize. At one time I thought of them as my mental blocks. At other times I thought of them like the alien artifact in 2001 space odyssey. I also think they may have been a spill over from thinking about a square as an abstract, archetypal, timeless form that may have been a carry over from the mandala series. The simple horizons with squares were never very popular and I still have a dozen unframed stored away somewhere.