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The Coast Refused a Straight Line
A rigid pier reaches toward the horizon, one of the most orderly structures in the landscape. Then it begins to curve. The shoreline bends, the sand appears to flow, the palms twist and perfect geometric forms hover overhead. The landscape is not violently destroying human order. It is slowly persuading it to stop being straight. The work asks whether we ever truly shape Florida, or merely occupy it for a time before the landscape reshapes itself.
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The question behind the painting
Do we shape the landscape, or does the landscape eventually reshape everything we build upon it?
The shell in this work
From Florida, Remembered in Dreams · a study in Tidal Surrealism.