"The Home Upon the Hill Near the Road Less Traveled"

Semi Abstract Therapy

This is one of those pieces that I was aiming for. It has a nice raw sketchy feel to it. This is rare, in the sense that it is loosely based off a sketch of mine done in early 2023.  So technically the sketch was consequential, and not intended at all.

The painting is just a replication of the random lines, colors, and shapes.  The purple and blue structures in the middle right are something that have started appearing more frequently in my work over the last 2 years. It has layers of sorts that seem to be attached to it.

There's a giant 8-ft painting in my home studio that started this imagery, that painting is also completely consequential.  Personally, I like the sketch a thousand times better.  I do like this painting, and I think everything works great on it but I have an uncanny affinity towards raw sketches so I am bias.

Maybe it's because I see the passion and the struggle in the sketch, and it just has so much more feeling to it.  Like I said it's pretty rare that I do a painting from a sketch but recently I've been going through all my old sketches and doing just that. To paint from a sketch is like taking candy from a baby, it's ridiculously easy.

Sure, it's my sketch that I'm painting from but sometimes I feel like I'm cheating. This is one of the most recent paintings that I've done as of August 2023. The object outlined in the 8 foot painting was where these shapes came from. It’s like a layer, or peeling away that starts attaching itself to the normal bricks or squares that I have been painting.

Everything has been going through a transformation, a shift, since late 2021. I have noticed that the obelisks are changing, the squares are changing, and the process is getting more intense. I am an observer by nature, and its always therapeutic to go back and see these changes, write about them and document them.

Again, my paintings are a public journal through my life, my heart, and my mind. The title is just a heading in my journal entry, depicting an imaginary home where my thoughts live on a regular basis.