My friend Michael Shannon Moore says that he's been painting the same landscape since the late 1960s. Some novelists say they write the same story over and over. Same with many composers. I've had a lifelong affinity for daybreak and its delivery of new possibilities. The action in the Homeric epics is punctuated by many elegant descriptions of the dawn.

The paintings following are actually details from previous paintings; the alert viewer may detect that they are lifted straight out of the Helios series, viewable elsewhere on this site. (I could have put a link right there, but I'm urging my fellow beings to enjoy the possibility of finishing things and not be jumping all over the place! You can find the Helios paintings in the Portfolio dropdown menu at the top of this and every page.) Mining my own paintings may be a form of editing. Or cannibalism. Or maybe just laziness. In any case I hope to be turning these small studies into larger works during my current sabbatical from Naropa University.