Welcome To The Horizon At Actual Size...Unfinished

4x36"

This is my newest piece, titled Welcome To The Horizon At Actual Size.

This piece is all about questioning the definition of "horizon". We think of it as the place where sky and land appear to meet, but that definition creates some ambiguity. It's not where the sky and land ACTUALLY meet, it's where that APPEARS to happen. So is that a real thing? Is is a tangible object we can latch on to? Is it the literal line that separates the two in our perception of what's before us, or is it more of a landscape generlization which has been created and ingrained in our humanity over time?

This piece makes the viewer decide. Are you looking at some far off tree-line as the fall sun sets, or have you found that separation of sky and land...that void between the top and bottom of our world as they reach and grab at each other...

Do you see the horizon as an aspect of landscape which cannot stand alone? A made up "line" that helps define depth and space? Or can the horizon stand alone as the absence of two halves...the smallest separation where two things meet?

Can you zoom into the horizon or does it simply become a new horizon of a smaller setting?

here's a vertical version of the piece...so you can see it a bit closer...