Just a Second

These paintings are based on casual videos shot with my digital camera or iPhone, largely of landscapes captured on the road. Historically, landscape painting was premised upon a stationary observer. Today's viewer is more likely to see landscape hurtling past the window of a vehicle, train or airplane. I selected and extracted video stills from these clips of landscapes in motion, often suites of consecutive frames, to translate into paint. I shot footage on cameras set at low frame rates, which resulted in blurry, painterly images. Trees dissolve and stand in stark relief, forms shift between recognition and abstraction. I'm fascinated by the space between perception and recognition, between motion and stillness, between the thinnest fraction of a digital second and the dense materiality of transforming that moment into paint.