I picked up on some common themes through the collection of Woody Guthrie songs we studied this week that inspired my work: the man and the exploration of the unknown. In the case of Roll On Columbia, the unknown is the Pacific Northwest. For my piece this week I envisioned an explorer heading West, arriving at a landscape he's never seen before. I've always been intrigued by how America's real explorers were so fearless as they went places no (western) person had gone before. They must've loved the sense of mystery. That's why I chose a blurred image of a man standing atop a mountain (that's how I interpreted the image), taking in what's around him. I placed a piece of acrylic, which I sanded, atop the image. The blurriness of the photo and the fuzziness of the plastic express uncertainty, and the ambiguity of the light in it contributes to this feeling. I like that I don't know what time of day it is in the picture. Is the sun rising from the East behind him? Or is it setting in the West as he looks back toward home?
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