Roadside Attraction
by Steve Henderson
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8.000 x 8.000 inches
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Title
Roadside Attraction
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
Out in the country, a roadside attraction is not an educational sign -- one of those that you pull over from a busy highway to read about some historical event (how many people actually do this?).
In the country, a roadside attraction is the country landscape itself -- the trees and bushes and grass and hills that surround and embrace the slowly winding, gently wending road. In autumn, especially, the brilliant colors of the roadside attractions blaze forth in their full glory: there is a period that lasts for a few weeks, no more, in which the foliage of the trees is still full, and the leaves have turned orange, red, coral, crimson, gold, and yellow.
Roadside Attraction, the artwork, invites the viewer to step into the car for a country drive – depending upon where you live, this could be early morning, or early afternoon, because the sun is low in the horizon, glancing off the trees and casting its shadow into the road.
Regardless of the time, it is quiet in this remote place. The road itself is gravel, which insists that we slow down as we drive and don’t be in such a hurry to get where we’re going. Because frankly, where we’re going doesn’t require us to hurry in order to get there, and part of the adventure is the journey itself – the roadside attractions we see at every bend and every curve.
Life is a journey, along the lines of a country road, or a busy highway, or, for some people, an insane freeway filled with traffic and tension and noise. On this journey of ours, it is worth taking an exit from the freeway to the less busy highway, and from there to the rural and county roads like that of Roadside Attraction, where we can travel more slowly, more purposefully, and with a greater sense of peace.
After all, the place to which it is taking us is beautiful.
(This particular road is located in Columbia County, Washington, in the farmland outside of Dayton.)
Featured in 44 Fine Art America groups.
Uploaded
September 25th, 2018
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