“Afloat Image.” Ceres Gallery. New York. Solo Show.
A woman from Italy loved this piece enough to buy it. I wonder if it reminded her of the scenery there. I was in Venice and Ravenna, in November a long time ago. It was cold. But not glacial. More cement and bone-chillingly windy cold, like the Northeastern cities here where I grew up.
Hollis Hildebrand-Mills 
Is this skyline an amalgamation of lots of different places? like this a lot – my colours again…
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The city is a combination of different places. The colors here to me, say mid morning and the number 44. (Synaesthesia, for who else is reading.)
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Love it! Does look like New England in winter.
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Yes a mixture. Boston and northern Mass. But even WE have to admit, it never got this spectacular looking. Walking to school in three feet of snow maybe, but not so untouched! Thinking of you! Thanks for the post. Look for me on your blog too!
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Both the scenes are very beautiful. But I find the picture haunting – the city of so many lights using up so many resources next to the vast natural habitat representing what we would like to gobble up and destroy. The lights are beautiful, though, and we want to have them. They represent what is not essential to our survival, but essential to our experience of life as a beautiful thing.
I am probably reading too much into this.
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No Denise you are not reading too much into this. A lot of times I get my ideas from the ether. The “truth” that is out there but is not verbalized. I just go with what looks well and balances according to rules of art. But the meaning gets into me as I work.
I think you are right. These are problems of our times. We want so much yet we have so much. And what is beautiful in nature so often suffers from lack of gratitude. Thank you for your insight.
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