I have always been attracted to the quality of light, precise colors and big skies of my native Texas and employ them to create a regional sense of place in my work. My representational landscapes often have a narrative, cinematic feel as if the landscape itself is a character in a story. The road trip velocity of being pulled weightlessly through this region raises themes of isolation, loss and of time and how quickly it passes. I want my work to evoke emotion and create a sense of longing and desire -- to be pulled by the force of the land, to be there in that quiet emptiness and simply experience it, see it, hear it, feel it and capture the duality of absence and presence with a vague sense of something eternal. These paintings often show the rapid decay of the man-made in contrast with the primal force of the land. Im fascinated with peoples relationship with the land by what and how they choose to build.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04302007-093439 |
| Date | 30 April 2007 |
| Creators | Bacon, Randall Alan |
| Contributors | Jim Woodson, David Conn |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | image/tiff, application/pdf, image/jpeg, application/msword, application/octet-stream |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04302007-093439/ |
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