"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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> It's an odd scene, Thomas, and is perhaps too easily dismissed based on an 
> initial response to the foreground.  The foreground does not easily map to 
> common experience.
>
> So you take a step back and say to yourself, "Let us suppose that that is 
> the point?"  Now what do we have?  We have a landscape whose terrain is 
> harsh and chaotic.  It suggests the random turbulence of the sea, but its 
> heaving disorder is combined with unnatural, squared-off geomtries. It is 
> the worst of both worlds, neither organic, nor ordered.  Worse still, the 
> strange, striated coloring, has nothing to do with either the unnatural 
> cubes or the pitching topography.  Instead it records a third and alien 
> force involved.  We are hardly surprised when we find a creature, formed 
> of these same strange molecules, planted forlorn in the foreground.
>
> But then there is the sky.  The sky is the chaos we know. An appreciation 
> of the sublime celebrated in romantic brushstrokes for a century or more. 
> Yours is complex, a brilliant sheen of cloud vapor, tufted and matted into 
> hazy, imponderable layers, which mock the parched surface.  Yet the sky is 
> the familiar which makes us believe the unfamiliar.  Or at least entertain 
> its possibility, while an drifting balloon travels beyond the such a 
> desperate land.

Thank you indeed, Jim. Your analysis is very to the point and relates quite 
faithfully what has been unconsciously going on in my mind during the whole 
process of creation. This is one of those images that has been triggered by 
chance, and I feel those are not the worst ones, compared to more "planned" 
scenes.

In the final stages I have been "kept" on the right track by several members 
of the French POV community. So, I acknowledge here their unrelenting 
criticism :-)

Thomas

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