I-70 Rearview Mirror Twilight Retrospective – Sunset, Friday, 18 March 2016

William Van Doren, I-70 REARVIEW MIRROR TWILIGHT RETROSPECTIVE. Sunset from Interstate 70, Frederick County, Md. Oil on canvas, 28 x 30.

Clear Sky Over Owings Mills Maryland – Sunset, Saturday, 2 January 2016

William Van Doren, CLEAR SKY OVER OWINGS MILLS MARYLAND. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on Arches watercolor block, 17 x 23.

Free State Solstice – Sunset, Sunday, 21 December 2014

William Van Doren, FREE STATE SOLSTICE. Sunset from Mount Airy, Carroll County, Md. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30.

I Dream of Hancock, Maryland

I dreamed I was in Hancock, Maryland, which is a pretty little town and a plain little town, a charming place and a possibly depressing place, it’s difficult for me to say which way it might fall. It follows the C & O Canal and Potomac River on one side and on the other the Interstate seals it in. It’s a long narrow succession of one thing after another, the alternating sights contribute to a binary, sometimes bi-polar impression. I dreamed the main street and its sidewalks were white — by which I mean, whiteness, the quality of being completely blank. Like a metaphysical blank canvas not yet filled in with any sort of reality. That’s the street where we live.

Haze On I-95 – Sunset, Saturday, 17 March 2012

William Van Doren, HAZE ON I-95. Sunset from Columbia, Howard County, Md. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Strangely enough, given my sunset of the evening before, when I saw this I was just off 95 on something called Old Waterloo Road.

Note

Traveling, so tonight’s sunset and tomorrow’s will post Sunday or Monday. Think “Free State.”