"Of Time and the River'"
oil  - 10" x 30"
June, 2007
This one I'll be keeping for myself.

Exhibited July-September, 2008
Marietta/Cobb Art Museum
Marietta, Georgia
Metro Montage VIII
A Juried Exhibition

Far into the headwaters of TVA's Norris Lake the Powell passes by Lonesome Valley 54 miles above the dam. My connection to this place goes back 200 years to when, in 1808, Jacob and Sylvia Cupp made their pioneer home atop the hill rising above the lake in the distance. They are my grandparents from six generations ago. Just before the lake was formed in 1933 my mom lived on a share-cropper farm a quarter mile beyond the bend.

I make a journey here each time I'm in northeast Tennessee. Few people do.
This time a man and two kids came down, launched a johnboat from a pickup truck and left a single track.

This place holds for me a sense of long enduring time.
This I've tried to capture and reflect in the eroded traces of many infrequent johnboat launches.
Man's meager tracks erode leaving only the endlessness of time and the river.