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At the Edge
30 × 24 inches | Acrylic on canvas | 2022
At the Edge was born from my exploration of historical art and the unexpected connection between two very different imagined landscapes.
In February 2022, I visited the Cleveland Museum of Art, where I encountered Raymond Jonson’s Rock at Sea, painted between 1920 and 1922. I was immediately captivated by its extraordinary textures, striking color palette, and the way the natural landscape had been transformed through abstraction. The painting felt both ancient and unfamiliar, as though it depicted a place shaped by forces beyond the ordinary world.
Around the same time, I discovered Paul Lehr’s 1971 cover artwork for George R. Stewart’s novel Earth Abides. Lehr’s otherworldly science-fiction imagery carried a sense of wonder, solitude, and mystery that deeply resonated with me.
By blending Jonson’s abstracted landscapes with Lehr’s dreamlike visions of distant worlds, I began creating a fictional realm of my own. At the Edge exists somewhere between land and illusion—a place suspended at the boundary of the known, inviting the viewer to imagine what might lie just beyond the horizon.
At the Edge
30 × 24 inches | Acrylic on canvas | 2022
At the Edge was born from my exploration of historical art and the unexpected connection between two very different imagined landscapes.
In February 2022, I visited the Cleveland Museum of Art, where I encountered Raymond Jonson’s Rock at Sea, painted between 1920 and 1922. I was immediately captivated by its extraordinary textures, striking color palette, and the way the natural landscape had been transformed through abstraction. The painting felt both ancient and unfamiliar, as though it depicted a place shaped by forces beyond the ordinary world.
Around the same time, I discovered Paul Lehr’s 1971 cover artwork for George R. Stewart’s novel Earth Abides. Lehr’s otherworldly science-fiction imagery carried a sense of wonder, solitude, and mystery that deeply resonated with me.
By blending Jonson’s abstracted landscapes with Lehr’s dreamlike visions of distant worlds, I began creating a fictional realm of my own. At the Edge exists somewhere between land and illusion—a place suspended at the boundary of the known, inviting the viewer to imagine what might lie just beyond the horizon.