Quilted landscape and aerial spraying yield painting on the cusp between beauty and ugly

Quilted Spray - art prints/digital painting - Dan Beck - 2005

Late summer, early fall of last year, I played around with this concept. Nothing original in the idea of the aerial landscape looking like a quilt. But adding texture to the helicopter as well was a fun and unique addition. At least I think it was.

As a painting this straddles some of what I find so interesting in art and life - that line between beauty and ugly. The quilted landscape is pleasing enough and even the spraying helicopter is kind of pleasing looking … until one realizes that what is being sprayed is poisonous.

I understand the thinking behind spraying - and even though I believe in organic growing as a sustainable path and a better way of growing, I know it is a difficult transition.

But when you are the in the midst of such spraying - which I have been in the Salinas Valley - it impacts one pretty strongly - the art print speaks to that experience and …

kind of makes one want to hold his breath.

See Also

• Quilted Spray
  options for art prints
• FINE ART (FILM) AERIAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY - a photoset on Flickr
  Interesting black and white images from above