Moonset - SOLD
Gouache on paper
13.5 x 13”
180.

About Moonset

It’s so easy to get wrapped up into what’s happening, whether in our personal lives or in national or worldwide events. Often, especially when challenged with unexpected circumstances, like the pandemic, the divisive political landscape, or the intense, renewed reckoning with racially-based injustices, our thoughts can go around and around until overthinking causes a kind of mental and emotional implosion. 

I painted “Moonset” about an hour after I witnessed the new moon about to set under the western horizon—the scene had popped into my vision as I drove home from work last year and it literally took my breath away. The moon looked impossibly large, and the blue of the sky, with the glowing dregs of the sunset, was so magnetically beautiful that I was jolted out of whatever thoughts had been swirling around in my head, allowing me to transcend to the level of celestial bodies.