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Valley Work - digital painting / original prints - Dan Beck 2005

I don’t know if anyone but me plays “gallery chance” or “image roulette” found on main pages of Outhouse Studios and in some galleries on the site. I seem to like random - I both like the leave it up to chance thing and don’t believe in chance - all at the same time.

In my mind, there is nothing particularly random about this piece coming up today. It is a work, I have wanted to print large, but haven’t had a good reason. I most recently have put up an exhibit in a local coffee roastery with very big walls - and was planning on including this work in the show - but didn’t.

Intellectually, the work fit - both about the workers and the abstract look of the valley - but stylistically - it didn’t fit with the rest of the work. Fortunately, my art keeps evolving - it doesn’t make an older work like this one not work - but it does date this one as being from a different time.

See Also

• Original Prints - discussion about what makes an original print and the use of the term at Outhouse Studios
• Yahoo Answers - What things do you deliberately leave up to chance? my search, my selection - just shows to go you - how many levels of meaning really exist