It entails creating an awareness that there is, in landscapes, a fascinating environment with which we can interact . . . A painting is more than an aesthetic, decorative item. I don't know how to describe to somebody the structure of a storm or the way in which everything moves in the sky, and I don't want to. But I do hope they will react to it. I hope they experience it in their own particular way.
Art has to be chewed, digested, and redigested.
I would like to have people participate in the feeling of my landscapes. Jones has been studying ways to better teach his Western lllinois University students how to integrate the computer with the visual arts. I ask him about his future artistic direction. I want to continue to paint landscapes and hopefully integrate landscape with this new computer imagery that I'm creating. Perhaps they will become more abstract or more visionary, but they will certainly contain the energies that I have been interested in from the beginning.