Sun Castle 1979

Ronnie Landfield’s *Sun Castle* seems to be made with washes of paint; it's all about how one color bleeds into another, like colors do in life. I love how the warm yellows and oranges flow together, creating a hazy, dreamy landscape that isn't quite definable, and how the paint is really thinned out so you see the tooth of the canvas, the texture underneath. It's like he’s letting the paint do its thing, letting gravity take over and allowing the colors to mingle and merge. There’s a soft-focus quality to the whole thing. Look at that horizon line, if that is what it is, it is a riot of drips and drabs. It makes me think of Helen Frankenthaler who also played with these ideas of soaking and staining canvas. It is all a reminder that art is just one big conversation across time. You know? A loose exchange of ideas, which is one of the many things that makes art so endlessly fascinating.