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The Little Wrangler, 2022
Oil on Linen
32 x 40
Oil on Linen
“This painting began with a moment of recognition – seeing my son wearing my childhood cowboy hat and spurs, he looked both like himself and like an echo of the boy I once was.
“I grew up on ranches out west, where my days were filled with horses and ranch dogs. Today I live in NYC, raising two city kids. I bring them back west so they can experience the spaces that shaped my childhood. They run where I once ran and ride horses where I learned to ride. In some ways I’m sharing my childhood with them; in others, I’m reliving it through their eyes.
“On a flight back from one of those trips, my son asked, ‘When can we go back? I love it there.’ When I asked why, he replied, ‘The sky. The sky is so big.’ That answer stayed with me.
“This painting is about distance: between rural and urban life, between childhood and adulthood, between the world we came from and the one we build for our children. It’s also about the quiet ways those worlds continue to meet – sometimes in a hat, a pair of spurs, or in the memory of a sky that feels impossibly big.”
32 x 40
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The Little Wrangler, 2022
Oil on Linen
32 x 40
“This painting began with a moment of recognition – seeing my son wearing my childhood cowboy hat and spurs, he looked both like himself and like an echo of the boy I once was.
“I grew up on ranches out west, where my days were filled with horses and ranch dogs. Today I live in NYC, raising two city kids. I bring them back west so they can experience the spaces that shaped my childhood. They run where I once ran and ride horses where I learned to ride. In some ways I’m sharing my childhood with them; in others, I’m reliving it through their eyes.
“On a flight back from one of those trips, my son asked, ‘When can we go back? I love it there.’ When I asked why, he replied, ‘The sky. The sky is so big.’ That answer stayed with me.
“This painting is about distance: between rural and urban life, between childhood and adulthood, between the world we came from and the one we build for our children. It’s also about the quiet ways those worlds continue to meet – sometimes in a hat, a pair of spurs, or in the memory of a sky that feels impossibly big.”
32 x 40
Oil on Linen
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The Little Wrangler, 2022
Oil on Linen
32 x 40
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
“This painting began with a moment of recognition – seeing my son wearing my childhood cowboy hat and spurs, he looked both like himself and like an echo of the boy I once was.
“I grew up on ranches out west, where my days were filled with horses and ranch dogs. Today I live in NYC, raising two city kids. I bring them back west so they can experience the spaces that shaped my childhood. They run where I once ran and ride horses where I learned to ride. In some ways I’m sharing my childhood with them; in others, I’m reliving it through their eyes.
“On a flight back from one of those trips, my son asked, ‘When can we go back? I love it there.’ When I asked why, he replied, ‘The sky. The sky is so big.’ That answer stayed with me.
“This painting is about distance: between rural and urban life, between childhood and adulthood, between the world we came from and the one we build for our children. It’s also about the quiet ways those worlds continue to meet – sometimes in a hat, a pair of spurs, or in the memory of a sky that feels impossibly big.”