GREEN INK SEEN: hybrid works – acrylic & charcoal on canvas

Down in the Jumpoff ~ 34” x 21” ~ $1450^.00

Up in Harding County, SD, down in a place called the Jumpoff, there’s a world of sparsely grassed benches, pricklypear, sculpted buttes, cut-banks, rattlesnakes, and dry. The sediments were laid down in an inland sea and pressed hard by time into soft stone. Water wore the place out of its ancient beds. Today, water is mostly sucked up by the gumbo and eaten by the dust; but a wild storm will tumble pounding across the broken space, raining hellishly hard, until the place is running wild and milky with land gone liquid.

Jumpoff Divide ~ 40” x 30” ~ $1950^.00

You fall off an undulating tableland and discover the Jumpoff – a broken land. The clean clear air leans down, bending the grasses that top jumbled benches and jagged buttes. A sheen of fleeting silvery light rolls with the wind over the short dry grasses. Hold your breath – the burning breath of the world blows steadily into the void.

Red Butte ~ 40” x 30” ~ $1950^.00

You end up revisiting places, in the mind, on the ground… both. Some are haunting, some inspiring, some quietly powerful. Except for the wind, the song of the meadowlark if it’s spring or summer, or the cry of a wheeling hawk, Red Butte is on the quiet side. It’s a place to linger.