http://stephencanino.com/2005/11/11/backyard-drawing/ A New York Based Painter Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:37:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://stephencanino.com/2005/11/11/backyard-drawing/#comment-28 Stephen Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:07:05 +0000 http://stephencanino.com/2005/11/11/backyard-drawing/#comment-28 It is intentional, Ben. I guess I feel like these are places that are uninhabitable. They are places that I would want to be yet would feel incredible lonely there. It's weird, considering they're all based on locations in Highland, past and present. I have such mixed emotions about these places and memories. I feel to a certian degree nostalgic about these places specifically and yet they seem cold and lonely now. They also lose their identity as the specific places that they are/were and become there own odd utopia/dystopia. I also like the fact that they are still caught between being abstract paintings and landscapes. If there were figures in them they would lose that tension. It is intentional, Ben. I guess I feel like these are places that are uninhabitable. They are places that I would want to be yet would feel incredible lonely there. It’s weird, considering they’re all based on locations in Highland, past and present. I have such mixed emotions about these places and memories. I feel to a certian degree nostalgic about these places specifically and yet they seem cold and lonely now. They also lose their identity as the specific places that they are/were and become there own odd utopia/dystopia. I also like the fact that they are still caught between being abstract paintings and landscapes. If there were figures in them they would lose that tension.

]]> http://stephencanino.com/2005/11/11/backyard-drawing/#comment-27 Funtime Ben Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:29:26 +0000 http://stephencanino.com/2005/11/11/backyard-drawing/#comment-27 I have a question I hope you don't mind me asking, but why aren't there any people in your paintings and is it done on purpose? I have a question I hope you don’t mind me asking, but why aren’t there any people in your paintings and is it done on purpose?

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