Paintings - Ultima Thule

The four paintings on the left hand side of the preceeding page were made at high elevation in the Eastern Sierra of California. A photograph (above left) of a cairn with the salt crystal on top taken from the Nothernmost point of land was separated into its C M Y and K plates, and the image of each plate was painted onto a thin surface of frozen water over each of the four canvases. The paintings were then exposed to the sun at freezing temperatures. The various colors, acting as spectra filters, may have affected the way in which the light melted, and eventually evaporated, the ice.

The painting on the right hand side of the preceeding page, Composition, is a hand painted rendering of the original M Plate.

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