Avoid The Night

This piece is titled "avoid the night" and it is a painting of sailboats at night, but has more to do with the isolation and separation created than the actual sailing representation. The piece is meant to get across the isolation of night on the water...the danger that lurks, how separated you are, even from that which is directly around you...The stark difference between the still quiet and the action of the unseen. I think the large, abstract and broad strokes mix interestingly with the scribbles and small scratches...though both the same color, each has a very different and visually impactful emotion. The spears of light and color become objects in foreground despite them being a simple lack of paint on the surface...they seem to float as a sail would at night...This piece is small (16x20) so I am interested in trying the "separation methods" of the large and small strokes on a large scale...