The Hudson Valley has been trekked, navigated, pictured and described more than any other waterway in American art and literature. Mark Twain fashioned his Mississippi as a central character many years after Irving and Cole had celebrated the Hudson. Traveling to sites where other artists and writers had beheld this estuary with many names–San Antonio, Shatemuc, Mahickannituck, Mauritius, and North River, is a form of intervention confirming the physical presence of natural features, but also the human regard, with all its desires and fictions. Landscape is not a fact before us but how we behold it. Mobility plays a major role in my narrative, which is at war with the notion that painting belongs to the wall–a notion I scorn every day by stepping outdoors with a studio in my pocket.
The PDF below represents the contents of a single fieldbook. There are not preparatory works but in its totality, the work itself.