Really, self-isolation and remote living has its considerable advantages: we are so fortunate to be able to have a backyard with skies and evening light like this. That's not to say that we aren't going crazed with thoughts of, and planning for, next semester ... The only drawback with photographing the same views, day after day, is that although the skies may differ, endlessly, I find that I only have a limited vocabulary on which to draw when it comes to writing about them. But tonight, the luminosity was like - well, none of the American luminists quite work. If the sky's worthy of Kensett or Heade, the setting is far too domestic. And if one moves towards artists connected with the Southwest, the comparisons start to run the danger of becoming kitschy ... Hollyhocks, sunset ... the challenge of avoiding Santa Fe cliché ...
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