What is the text in the background of Great Blue Heron?
I remember reading an article somewhere of a man telling the story of his family fulfilling one last summer ritual in the wooded lakes with their boat; but instead of finding peace in the whispering pines, the sun reflecting off the lakes, or the smell of fish caught with his own hands, he sees a great blue heron standing statue-still nearby in shallow water that personified beauty and mindfulness. It was so well-written that it seemed fantastic the next summer when I peered through the trees surrounding my family’s cabin to see The Great Blue Heron standing still on our dock and peering out at the morning water. I took the text from the article I read. In fact, you incorporate text into a lot of your compositions, such as Radio Bird, shown here. Could you tell us about this, what you like about text as a visual element? When there are words that surface above the palimpsest of dispensable media, I take them to my paintings and internalize their rich meanings, the scrolls of the letter
