This is a plein air drawing I made of the beacon at the end of the jetty in my hometown this weekend. I plan on going back and making more studies and eventually make a painting from them. I want to contrast the idea of the positive "guiding light" of a beacon with the dangers of going back to what is safe and familiar. I would make the composition more dynamic, and give the beacon a more ominous feel, maybe through a more exaggerated perspective.
In her drawings and installations, Kim Beck, an artist who shows in the Mixed Greens Gallery in Chelsea, creates a conversation between nature and the man made. I have been interested in the way man has negatively effected the earth, and whether or not she intends it, looking at Beck's work makes me think about that issue. I remembered seeing her work and looked her up again after realizing that my drawing also brings about the same issue in a subtle way.
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