Michael Smith – Memory Current

Essay by Robert Enright

A landscape for Michael Smith is a world and a whirled. He recognizes that all his references
are to landscape and he is obsessed with those possibilities. There is no single way for his
landscapes to be viewed or rendered and, as a result, the process of their realization is neither
stable nor predictable. In Smith’s hands, a landscape is a repository for memory (the past) and
a site for making (the present). At their core, they hold emotion, psychology and aesthetics in
an inexplicable balance.

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Image Credit:
Clock, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
48″ – diameter