"Faultline, Western Shoal View (after an anonymous Oregon‑coast print from Costco)"

Origin (Savannah, 2024). This painting began as a large piece of wall art my wife bought from Costco to decorate our house in Savannah, Georgia. It measures approximately five feet by three feet (possibly five by two and a half) and came framed. It cost a couple hundred dollars. The image is from the coast of Oregon; I do not know the original title. While sitting in the house one day in 2024 and looking at this painting, I asked my wife if I could paint on it. She agreed and I took it off the wall—still in the frame—and began painting.

Process and changes. I embellished and repainted the surface so the shapes and landscape became one of mine. The central rock/island structure, slightly left of center, was turned into a three‑dimensional cube; I did the same to the stack behind it. In the foreground, I made the forms three‑dimensional in front of a small patch of grass; the grass on the left is part of the original image. I cut a ravine or pathway through the sand in the foreground. On the right, I created cliffs that open as if an earthquake split the ground or the beach.

Result. It turned out great. I love it. I find it calming and soothing.

Support. The image is printed on mat board. The back is still sealed; I did not alter it. It should last a long time.

Authorship. It is hard to call it entirely mine because it is, in a way, a collaboration. I do not know with whom.

Collector highlights — Faultline, Western Shoal View (after an anonymous Oregon-coast print from Costco)

• Origin (Savannah, 2024): began as a large, pre-framed Costco wall piece; taken off the wall and painted directly after the artist asked his wife if he could work over it.

• Distinct re-authored genesis: oil painted over the original printed mat-board image—sea-stacks rebuilt as cubes; a ravine cut through the sand; right-side cliffs opened as if by a fault—while a small grass patch from the print remains. Back remains sealed.

• Scale & presence: 150 cm × 91 cm (approx. 59 × 36 in), a substantial statement format.

• Provenance & documentation: On hand at the artist’s studio; signed “R24+” (front, lower right); artist’s seal and Certificate of Authenticity in a sleeve on the back.

• Viewing character: conceived to be calming and soothing, the re-worked landscape reads as an engineered yet tranquil coastal scene.

• One-of-one: unique oil intervention (no prints); built to live with and reward sustained looking.