These panels — the Fibonacci format Ian built for me — carry the Alluvial Island series forward, a line of work I started in the 1980s.
It began with photographs a NASA photographer shared with me: an island moving downstream on the Mississippi, documented frame by frame. Early film technology, combined with the amorphous shapes of sand, rock, and tree caught in the current, revealed something the eye alone couldn't — erosion at the top of the island, deposit at the alluvial delta below. The organic matter sat inside the hard geometry of the film strip's border.
Organic against geometric. That tension was beautiful then. It still is.ic. That tension was beautiful then. It still is.
This is developing very nicely, I wanted to get a jump on this today as a refrence for the first session of the beyond the landscape workshop starting tomorrow..
38 X 62 INCHES
This is a photo of one of the earlier explorative paintings above and to the left is a 2026 adaptation from this memory.