Signs of Life, painted in the Spring of 2019, is an airy, exuberant, abstract landscape. Not an intentional thing, but I am stuck by how much my work can feel like a place or a moment in the landscape. A simple, horizontal slash of green in the lower, righthand corner, feels to me like a strip of field in an afternoon sun or the sea in the distance. While the white and red spaces take on the feel of an activated sky. The work doesn't start out that way, with obvious horizon lines but as the painting progresses, a space starts to take shape. The influence of JMW Turner, where in his seascapes, the horizon is often low, giving room for the sky to take on the drama of light is often on my mind. My time on Nantucket, where the sky is so big and the weather, often dramatic also influences my work - but again, not consciously. When it's all working right, a painting like this is discovered, not planned.