Image: “Pegasus”, oil on canvas, approx 7.5 ft x 5 ft, 1979

Presence

Before there was art, there was presence.

Long before images were made, before language named the world, human beings stood before the unknown. They faced the changing sky, the movement of animals, the rhythm of light and darkness, the silence of stone, and the mystery of their own existence. They were not observers standing apart from the world. They were participants within it.

Richard Pitts