It is intentional, Ben. I guess I feel like these are places that are uninhabitable. They are places that I would want to be yet would feel incredible lonely there. It’s weird, considering they’re all based on locations in Highland, past and present. I have such mixed emotions about these places and memories. I feel to a certian degree nostalgic about these places specifically and yet they seem cold and lonely now. They also lose their identity as the specific places that they are/were and become there own odd utopia/dystopia. I also like the fact that they are still caught between being abstract paintings and landscapes. If there were figures in them they would lose that tension.
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I have a question I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why aren’t there any people in your paintings and is it done on purpose?
It is intentional, Ben. I guess I feel like these are places that are uninhabitable. They are places that I would want to be yet would feel incredible lonely there. It’s weird, considering they’re all based on locations in Highland, past and present. I have such mixed emotions about these places and memories. I feel to a certian degree nostalgic about these places specifically and yet they seem cold and lonely now. They also lose their identity as the specific places that they are/were and become there own odd utopia/dystopia. I also like the fact that they are still caught between being abstract paintings and landscapes. If there were figures in them they would lose that tension.