"TRIPLASH"

Fauntleroy Ferry Dock - graphite on 8x5 98# paper.

“TRIPLASH” is a term I just coined, which is the feeling you get upon returning from an amazing trip, where the exotic, new and amazing is suddenly replaced with the same ole familiar miracle of your ordinary life.

I had TRIPLASH upon returning from Europe a year ago, and the antidote wound up being going out and painting again, which allowed me to reconnect to where I was.

And isn't that the the primary purpose of art, to awaken to the now?

So I did these drawings while waiting in the ferry line, and ya know….it really works. Just the process of methodically cataloging what you see in front of you has a very settling effect on my payche.

Whether the drawings are “good” or not is not important. It's the doing, the being with, the re-establishing a connection to place, that is important.

And for me, a functional necessity.

Vashon Ferry Line - graphite on 8x5 98# paper