This 36" x 48" acrylic painting on gallery quality canvas is an instantiation of a summer rainstorm close to downtown Denver. The silver buildings rising out of the misty tan air are painted in gray and silver.
Denver Skyline in Summer
As a Colorado native, the city of Denver has been transformed in recent years into a complex and diverse metropolis that I barely recognize. The feeling of being a stranger in your own land reminds me of the concepts in Eric R. Wolf's masterpiece "Europe and the People Without History." In the introduction he writes, "The central assertion of this book is that the world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processses, and inquiries that disassemble this totality into bits and then fail to reassemble it falsify reality." Denver is in some ways that to me which is why I split my time between Denver, Montana and Cheyenne as a child of the Mountain West.
