Newly burned area and grasses 17 - 1999

Terry Evans made this photograph, ‘Newly burned area and grasses’, and I love how the land rolls in a soft, sweeping, and tender way. The color palette is really beautiful, like a Rothko painting where the color feels very internal and meditative. I imagine Terry up in a small plane, documenting the subtle shifts in color, texture, and light as the landscape stretches out before her. Maybe she was thinking about the cycles of nature. The lower part is in shadow, with a dark diagonal cutting across the soft, rolling hills. Those gentle, shadowy undulations – it feels a bit like Agnes Martin’s grids, but organic and untamed. You know, artists are always looking at each other, borrowing, stealing, riffing – it’s a constant conversation. That's how artists work; we see something, feel something, and we want to share it. Maybe in a similar way to how Terry felt compelled to photograph it, offering her unique way of seeing and experiencing the world.