Only out on Inspiration Point can one see any distance at all, and it has the effect of moving one's consciousness inward. In Anza, the light is white and hot, refracted from the crystalline structures of sand and rocks, with little greenery to absorb it. My palette has changed since I came to Anza, from intense pure colors to muted earth bronzes, golds, sage green, pale lavenders, silver greys and blues. It seems more meditative, spiritual. In Anza there are only small clusters of visible man-made shapes to interrupt the organic flow of rocks and fields.
Consciousness expands to the far horizon.
We are surrounded by monolithic rocks that look like giant eggs, or Henry Moore family sculptures, or Stonehenge. Christine says this last year living in Anza has been the most productive of her life, producing over 30 paintings. Every morning, Christine arises at dawn and walks to her outdoor studio, which she constructed for controlled translucency, to capture a certain amount of light at a certain time of day. And there she creates her abstract works of expansion and freedom. The literal of how Christine creates is she lays the canvas flat and walks around and around it, stroking its surface, often aggressively, with various-sized brushes, often big, with colors, often unharmonious.