I try to express the feeling of infinite distance as I look at land, water and sky from different perspectives. Often I place the horizon line near the top of the canvas, to make it feel far away. Sometimes I zoom in, placing the line near the bottom, so we are looking at a forest that grows from the line and fills the rest of the canvas. In other pieces, I pull so far away that I imagine I’m painting the horizon of a planet seen from outer space. I see infinity whether I’m looking out or in. There seems to be no end to how far we can go with either a telescope or a microscope.
Whatever the perspective, there are no boundaries in these paintings except those of the natural world. This is why I choose not to frame them. The beach, vegetation, water and skies wrap around the sides of the stretched canvas and the implication is that they keep going from there.
—Maro Lorimer
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