The train from Lima to Huancayo is the highest train in the world. The stewards aboard the train inform the passengers that oxygen tanks are available for people feel faint. You rise rapidly through a succesion of tunnels and through canyons of bare rock, the varieties of which are visible by their color and characteristics.
Although there is little sign of the presence of man in the collection of mountain studies, these tunnels were something to experience. I enjoyed adding the rounded shape of the tunnel openings, in contrast to the rectilinearly interpreted mountains. Where man's thumbprint is usually a straight line in contrast to nature's curves, in this little study, the opposite is true.
This was the last study, on this trip, to be made on Twin Rocker hand made paper. I was joined, at this time, by friends from New York who had not been able to find the paper I requested, but did replenish me with a normal watercolor block.
ARTIST'S COMMENTARY (continued)
"Lima to Huancayo, Peru"
Sept. 25, 1988
egg tempera on hand made paper
5 x 7 inches