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
Tags: Art, painting, prints, Salinas Valley, texture
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