WATERCOLOR/COLLAGE 161 / by Philip Tarlow

watercolor/collage 161 11x15”

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3:41 PM: this morning i started work on a new one: watercolor/collage 161. it has 4 female figures, all based upon the photos i shot last year of high school students in alamosa preparing to enter canoes and paddle on the river that runs through alamosa. there’s a fifth figure at the bottom, which i’ve used in earlier watercolors. there’s an ambiguity in this one. what’s that log doing there, larger than any of the figures? and are they standing in the grass or in the water?