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statement The landscapes in my current series, Daily Markings on the Face of the Earth, are inspired by the landscape-related events in mainstream news media. Each painting represents events reported during one calendar day—which is chosen at random between 1995 and the current calendar year. To start a painting, I research news media for man-made and natural events marking the earth's surface on the specific chosen date. Some examples of events are floods, unexplained algae blooms, glacial drilling, tightening of international borders, or war bombing—anything leaving a tracing, a blot, a plume of smoke, or an unintended “drawing” on the earth’s surface. Once I have compiled the events, I collect roughly 100 to 200 related images from which I choose a selection as inspiration for the final painted composition.