Along a Long Line

Paintings from the Along a Long Line series describe four regions that fall on either side
of 74°00W line of longitude, which passes through my studio in Hoosick New
York, as well as New York City.


The itinerary for Along a Long Line was as follows:
June-August, 2007: Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, Canada (63°45N, 68°31W).
Pangnirtung is a small Inuit town on a fjord of Cumberland Sound, just below the Arctic Circle.

October-December, 2007: San Cudo, Ecuador, (0°59S, 77°49W).
The Jatun Satcha Reserve, near San Cudo, is a 2500 hectare ecological preserve on the Napo River, administered as a research station by the Jatun Sacha Foundation, the forest shelters one of the world’s most diverse collections of plant, animal and insect species.

January-February, 2008: St. John, Virgin Islands (18°20N, 64°50W).
On the island of St. John is the 14,000 acre Virgin Islands National Park, which has been designated by the United Nations as a part of the biosphere reserve network.

April-May, 2008: New York City, New York (40°43N, 74°00W).
Since I am a draftsman, I like the idea of making a journey that inscribes a very long line. I wish that the line could have been straighter, but logistics demanded that I chose sites with the adequate infrastructure and the political stability to support the project. More important than drawing a long line, however, was the idea of visualizing the earth as a shared space, sectioned by scientific measure rather than by political boundaries.


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 Review from THE Magazine, Santa Fe, May 2009


Latitude, Along a Long Line and Antipodes Landscape has become an urgent subject. In response, I am developing three plein air painting projects, Latitude, Along a Long Line, and Antipodes, each of which combines life study and abstraction to recount the color, light, and motif of many places. In the most general terms this tri-part painting project is an attempt to describe the uniqueness of individual places while maintaining a global perspective. Although the improvisational painting process remains constant within these three projects, the location for each series shifts. For Latitude I stay in one place for an extended period to paint the changes of season as the earth shifts on its axis. For Along a Long Line I travel along the 70th line of longitude to four locations between the Arctic Circle and the equator to paint the changes of region. For Antipodes, I travel to locations that are on opposite points of the globe to paint a comparison.

Arctic
         
Equator        
   
         
Caribbean        
   
         
New York        

 

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