Searching For the Words
Clarifying thoughts for a unified message.
The trees awaited as twilight arrived.
-Capt Mike
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8x10, 11x14, 16x20
Signed on the front of print
Signed, dated, titled with text (above) written on back of print
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10,000 Days on the River
In his most recent body of work, 10,000 Days on the River, the images are taking Capt. Mike and the viewer on a journey. By boat and by foot. Yesterday. Today. Hundreds of years ago. Indians, painters, trappers, sailors and fisherman all pass in timeless, silent parade within the frames of these photos.
Capt. Mike has always been inspired by painters Albert Bierstadt and Asher Durand and their skill of capturing light and time of day. More recently, Capt. Mike has been captivated by the paintings of Aert van Der Neer, of the Dutch Golden Age of landscape painting in the 1600s, and van Der Neer’s atmospheric rivers filled with moonlight, fog, fire, trees, wind and water.
Aware his images have just been created in the moment, the timeless quality of them takes Capt. Mike seamlessly into the river’s past and its ageless beauty. He states, “The history and opportunity for discovery is always there. But never more so than at the early hour where the day arises and throws off its blanket of night.”
