04 March 2012

For Hot Springs Wizard

With my CD portfolio and physical portfolios packed up safely during the relocation process, the only way I can ensure a seamless link to get a photo to Mister Wizard is post it here.
Glacial Incidental vacations at Sunrise Mountain | Watercolor and Prismacolor pencil mix on Arches |  24" x 18" | 2007-08



The original work in reality is large for a watercolor, owned and on display in my hostess's office building in Las Vegas, which is a real live busy U.S. city in spite of its famed casino scene.  Its an efficient place, a metaphor for life in the 21st Century where vehicular accidents are instantly removed from the beltway by the time long ribbons of slowed traffic resumes its ceaseless going to and coming from leaving a sort of empty space where something ... happened.

The objects illustrated in the artwork are rocks collected with a student geology major while taking a desert sabbatical in Nevada in 2006, brought back to California the same year where they were expanded by the inclusion of a distinctly egg-shaped, smooth surfaced - unusual and rare (most of them are piles of huge boulders above ground or discovered on seafloors and lakebeds) Glacial Incidental, which is what these granite and limestone boulders and boulder-spawn left over from the Pleistocene are called.  Smoothness and roundness of the GI is not a common feature at all.  Think of the battering and long distances these rocks and boulders were pushed from the seacoast far inland as the oceans rose up and traveled eastward.

Now, back in Nevada five years later to the day, which that in itself is interesting, how cyclical the journey is, I come to find the Nevadian rock collection to perfectly resemble the exact mountains where each was gathered. Hmmmm.

4 comments:

nina said...

Long time followers of the blog will recall this painting from a blog logoshot sometime over the past few years.

Hotspringswizard said...

I really like that painting Nina ( its one of yours? ). It reminds me of the round black stone I collected sitting on the granite rock in the pond seen in my Simplicity pic :-)

nina said...

Muchas gracias Mr. Wiz.

Everything in this gallery's post section (left/middle) is mine. Right side is for links, archives, poetry, other artists.

No matter how great my art, you far surpass any greatness with your superb photos.

Hotspringswizard said...

Thanks for that clarification Nina :-) Regarding my photos versus your paintings, each have thier own special expressive qualities and unique form, and I know we both enjoy the endeavor of transferring our inspirations into something that others can enjoy. You are very talented in your craft, and I really appreciate your creative renderings :-)