To Be There, Alone, to Be There

This week, as a contradiction to the seriously sub-zero weather, I painted a sunny dry hillside in Spain. What captivated me at the time, and what I sought to replicate here, was the “all over-ness” of the pattern of pines, shadows, rocks … endless variations on a theme. As my title suggests, a person could get lost, in this non-directional sense of nowhere but here.