Art is not a literal medium, nor should it be; rather, it ought to be affective — that is, concerned with the experience of its viewing and the feelings it provokes rather than rote representation. In my art I strive to capture not a literal landscape but the experience of landscape itself: color, light, movement, and even absence (consider the horizon, the boundary at which the land ceases to be). I consider my starting point, always, to be nature — that which is — but in the act of painting I transform it into that which is felt.