I had a crush on Mt. Alfred. Viewed from the lagoon at the north end of Glenorchy, NZ, Mt. Alfred is a self-satisfied thing, its confidence rooted in geometry. The mountain is an isosceles triangle, the left slope equal to the right, and its base exactly twice its height. But the mountain is not stolid; [...]
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Glenorchy, NZ
Glenorchy, New Zealand, where I’ll be for the next 8 weeks, sits on a lake that is 100 meters deeper than the surface of the sea and is fed by runoff from mountains named the Remarkables. The lake, Wakatipu, is shaped like a dog’s leg and Glenorchy is on the hip end at the north. [...]
Warren Cooper, Landscape Painter
I lost the first round. We were looking at a canal scene of Venice that he had painted and I mentioned that once on art business I had stayed in that city for a month. Warren Cooper, a tall man of 79 years with clear, blue eyes and the kind of thick, white hair [...]
Leaving
Packing went on all week. Every choice was labored. It’s mid-summer in New Zealand, have I brought enough yellow and green? Will the mornings be cool enough for long johns? Can I get by with medium grit sandpaper, or should I take fine and coarse as well? Once selected, each item was inventoried, and placed [...]
The Next Antipodal Pair, New Zealand and Spain
After a quiet spell, Antipodes.us will be active in 2012 with posts from another antipodal pair, New Zealand and Spain. Posts from Glenorchy, on the south island of New Zealand will begin in mid-January. Posts from the Galicia region of Spain will begin in early April. I hope you will come along. Company is welcome.
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
“It’s the most beautiful place on earth”, I said to a friend. I was referring to Halina Pali, a great cliff that drops to the Pacific on the southern coast of Hawaii. Each time I visited the place, I said the same thing to myself, but I dismissed the thought as hyperbole, the everyday kind [...]
Hawaiian Paintings
A few more pictures from my last weeks in Hawaii. The titles are provisional. All works are oil on aluminum, 24″x 30″.
Zombies of Botany
If beauty is motivation to live, and I think it is, then the plants of Hawaii do humanity an enormous favor, reaffirming life with their sensual display. Having ten or more distinct climate zones, the island of Hawaii has an astonishing diversity of plant life to contemplate. And it’s not just the visual sensation of [...]
More Paintings from Hawaii
The following paintings, made on the big island of Hawaii, are oil on aluminum panel, 24″ x 30″. The titles are provisional.
Heebie-Jeebies
At the mention of Mo’okini Heiau, Andrew Doughty, the author of a popular guidebook, Hawaii The Big Island Reveled, suddenly turns mystical. “Even before we knew the gory details about Mo’okini Heiau’s history, the place gave us the heebie-jeebies. We aren’t the only ones who have noticed that the area around the temple is filled [...]
