ARTIST'S COMMENTARY (continued)
The prussian blue pieces done in Lima, before boarding a bus into the Andes, were experiments for me. In this painting, I played with the idea of implying simple "stepped" patterns from weaving in the background mountains, by making the layers symetrical and almost two-dimensional. I was also experimenting with different manners of creating an illusion of mist between receding layers of peaks.
The misty effect alludes to Asian landscape painting, of course, and is one of the defining qualities of the series, along with the stepped pyramid forms.
Something solid but erroded, though only slowly, by time, surrounded by an amorphous, constantly shifting and indefinable presence.
"Brother-Sister Mountains"
6 x 8.4 inches
egg tempera on hand made paper
Aug., 1987