For this series of paintings I have been sampling colors from the lush environment of South Louisiana. The colors are matched en plein air —in the open air. The samples are then taken into the studio where larger amounts of matched colors are mixed. Reflections from water, festering storm clouds and September's exhausted foliage are among the seasonal colors used to construct these works. Structurally these painting maintain a horizontal organization. The optical and aural effects of purling water, the cross section of sediment and the droning oscillations of summer cicadas are among the alias composites of these landscapes. I also think of these works in the contextural light of impressionism —on the objective recording of nature in terms of the fugitive effects of color and light. Desaturated of subject, the works become a dissolution of experience and impressions -compressed lines of information, to be unstuffed into memory associations evoked by colors and composition.
