Off the Grid

by Steve Henderson

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30.000 x 20.000 inches

Title

Off the Grid

Artist

Steve Henderson

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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Some days, you just want to get away.

Far away. Out of sight and sound of modernity. In a place of silence where you aren’t even tempted to pull out your phone and see what else is going wrong with the world, because the landscape is so remote that it doesn’t get cell phone service.

Off the Grid.

Here, in this wild and remote countryside, the remnants of a road winds its way up and down the hills, passing by copses of trees and meadows golden with late summer grass. The sky overhead is blue with just the right amount of white clouds. And the gentle breeze keeps both tree branches and clouds moving, its sound barely a whisper in the silence.

Nobody’s here, just you.

Your cell phone gets no reception, so the drone of a podcast or harangue of an actor reading the latest disaster from the teleprompter cannot possibly reach you. And while you could put your phone away anytime at home, make a commitment to not let it control your life, sometimes the temptation gets just too strong – the siren song of “keeping up with current events” is a powerful one, and it takes determination and stubbornness to turn a deaf ear to it. (Bit by bit, with practice, you can do this.)

Are you unable to get away? Are you stuck in the office, in traffic, in the grocery store, surrounded by other people addicted to technology? Then this is the time to take refuge in art, to enter into the painting – in this case, Off the Grid – and allow your spirit to walk along that road, to feel the sunshine on your face and the crumbly clods of dirt under your feet, and to mentally escape to a place of tranquility, peace, and beauty.

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November 7th, 2022

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