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“Serpent's_#43” represents an inflection point in the continuing Tornado Series. Up to now I’ve been intentionally working without visual referent – operating exclusively from memory or preconception.
It seemed a worthy exercise – an irreproducible luxury – to scan the mental database and see what my personal encoded tornado icon looks like – at least to date.
With this painting, though, I’ve taken to painting from external observation: The web is replete with powerful, experiential video of tornadoes. I think of working in accompaniment to these videos as mediated en plein air painting.
