Walk After Dark

Oil on canvas

24"x30"

Allegorical series

There is something about walking in the forest at night. Letting your eyes adjust, listening to the quiet and subtle sounds, looking at how the light plays differently. Letting the imagination fill in the darkness with remembered and imagined things. The same world observed light becomes entirely another one in darkness. The same darkness our ancestors walked in, created stories in, imagined in. A smaller, simpler path, for a moment. 

These paintings were based my memories of living in Europe for several years. I painted this series to capture the feelings of connection to nature and history I felt while living in the countryside and spending many hours a day in the forest.