Kansas West
On canvas, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″ (30 cm x 30 cm x 3 cm)
€275 (+ shipping of €13 to Ireland, €18 to UK, and €22 rest of the world)
This is a scene from my solo bicycle trip across America. It’s out in the centre of west Kansas looking back to the north through the stony bluffy hills I’d just climbed up. People unfamiliar with the state of Kansas think it’s flat as a pancake, but they’re unaware of the Flint Hills or the rolling fields in the southeast of the state, or even out west on the Plains where you find bluffy hills like this where two sections of the plains on different levels meet. Incidentally I once read a blogpost that proved Kansas was not flatter than a pancake though personally I think they would have needed to have used a Kansas-sized frying pan to truly compare.
If you’ve cycled for days in the corn, milo, and grasses of Nebraska and Kansas only going on roads that go due west and due south for ever, and of course always straight, well even the sight of a bend in the road like this is magnificent, let alone an actual hill. So I stared back at this one knowing full well one day I would paint it. And I love it, and nobody else ever has.
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