North America

Creative Rationale

Over the inland Pacific Northwest, near the Columbia River plateau in Washington state, where basalt cliffs meet rolling wheat fields under vast skies. The moderate humidity (71%) creates forms that blur and bleed at their edges like watercolor on wet paper, while the significant temperature anomaly (8.8°C above normal) charges the composition with restless, tortured energy - biomorphic shapes pressing urgently against the picture plane. The gentle wind from the northeast adds subtle gestural marks that flow through the composition, and the relatively low pressure compresses forms into an intimate, slightly claustrophobic space where memories of landscapes and bodies intermingle.