SOLITUDE

Oil on canvas
51 x 76 cm

Love at first sight once again! The curving beauty of  sculpted sand dunes embracing unyielding rocks in an untamed silent windy wilderness; a ‘Sahra’, desert (Arabic), that I would only ever see through Steinmetz’s (1999) lens… this time of Chad. Reminds me of another ‘special place’ in the Saudi desert to which Michael retreated to listen to the silence, and watch the landscape change from orange to purple to a canopy of star lit skies. My painting salutes Steinmetz’s talent – but mostly, a wonder of God’s creation and of all such places hidden from human sight. Perhaps to  share that wonder with whomsoever might see their own thoughts reflected.