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Gathering Twilight, 16x20, 2007, Jacob Cooley   Clearing, 40x30, 2007, Jacob Cooley October Tidal Pool, 40x30, 2007, Jacob Cooley These paintings are informed by harmonious and hallowed places, landscapes about contemplation and the spirit, but also about the transient, ephemeral characteristics of light and darkness and ultimately, of life. This work attempts to capture and hold the instant when the orange of the sun is about to completely scatter into the diffused light of dusk, or the thunderclouds move to entirely obscure the horizon. Moments. I am revelling in what to me is basic, authentic, and profoundly essential to issues of my consciousness - the infallible truths and deep-rooted perpetuity of landscape.  Installation , Tyndall Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007 This imagery to me, as someone who grew up in the South is loaded with reminiscence. It is the storehouse of my identity, my sense of place. These vast and shadowy spaces speak to me about growing up - watching blurred, barely illuminated, overgrown, viney landscapes rush by the windows of a travelling car. Colors and shapes as fleeting, intensely-saturated form. They are about that energy. .JPG) .JPG)
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