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What Color is the Sea? What Color is the Sky?
What Color is the Sea? What Color is the Sky?
painting, social engagement, canvas
10' x 4'
2021

Second week in June, 2020.
This work obviously draws on traditions of seascape painting, and the recording of different colors/conditions on the same place has echoes of Monet's Haystacks. But there are crucial differences:

To begin with, these are done in almost real time, and form an index or an archive, a record of specific moments over a specific period.
These works are participatory: the colors are not my choice alone but are suggested by people who participated in the project and are intimately connected to the place.