Title: Horizon

Media: Colored pencil with oil pastel on Black mat board

Size: 10" x 40" (give or take an inch)

Framing: framed without mat

Price or Current disposition: NFS

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Comments: I am pretty sure this was the first of the Horizon series. It is very minimalistic, just a simple expanse of color and space, yet the fact that it has a horizon line gives it some sense of content that make it accessible to some people that may find color fields by someone like Rothko a little too abstract. I think this is true of all my horizon and pattern pictures. While my concerns are very abstract, the content (horizons, stars, squares, spheres) are concrete enough that it remains accessible to the rational mind. At the same time, this almost renaissance method of portraying space has meant that most galleries and critics see the series as more graphic than fine art. It is not going to end up in a museum collection, featured in the pages of Art News, or be worth a million dollar when I'm dead. It is perhaps too accessible.