As I worked on this painting, coincidentally I read an essay by David M. Robinson on Thoreau's Walden. He writes, "...the description recreates the pond surface as a medium of cognition, an ideal analogue for the completely perceptive mind. The line of demarcation between two different realms, water and sky, the surface is also the place at which these realms meet and merge, recording and thus comprehending each such event. Perception, as represented by Thoreau through the perfectly impressionable pond surface, is thus a process of merger or unification."
The painting is an 18x24 oil on canvas of the small pond located on Mount Greylock.
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