Mindscape: an 18x24 oil on canvas of the wooden pathway that goes around half of Jordan Pond. I posted a pastel study last week. A landscape like this for me is a metaphor for the mind.
I've been reading another book on the poet Seamus Heaney (Seamus Heaney's Regions by Richard Rankin Russell), which quotes Heaney, who wrote that "artworks... can slow and even stop frantic activity that characterizes most of the rest of contemporary existence... [because] they provide time for the evaluation of intention and consequence. Even more significantly, they provide time for those extensions of memory into the past and imagination into the future by means of which our lives acquire their genuinely intersubjective and moral dimension." Heaney creates landscapes of the mind using words. I try using paint, though I may be disadvantaged since paint splotches have fewer levels of meaning.
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