Bluffing

2003

48" X 20"

Oil on Panel

SOLD

Standing on the porch
looking out over this great expanse of Vineyard bluff
where the sea and the sky
and the meadows and even the laundry
are bent to the sun
and drawn taught by the wind

there is something else to be said
for artistic license.

In the real world there are other houses
peppering the landscape.
Other humans,
even other laundry which must be sailing on the same breeze.

But in my studio fantasy
the only cedar shingles I can see are layered on the bunkhouse before me.

This is not by way of arrogance
or conceit
just a different ending to the same old story.

Or maybe a glimpse of the beginning.