_{With Ryan. Thanks, MiYoung!}

Since there were just three of us, we decided to climb into the Jeep and venture out to the Herring River and Griffin Island. Our first stop was the Wellfleet Conservation Trail at the Herring River. After we made that loop, we jumped across the temporary bridge to Griffin Island and made a quick tour of the trail above Duck Harbor Beach.

This is the kind of fieldwork that really speaks to me. I’ve learned a lot spending time in and around Wellfleet Center and I have high hopes of making some new work based on those (ongoing) explorations. But getting into the woods and looking looking at the land with people who see it in ways beyond my vision always opens me. 

Although I’ve previously walked the Wellfleet Conservation trail on the mainland side of Herring River (just once before), I was inspired to think about those vistas as potential new motifs for work. Exciting.

I’ve already started some new paintings based on the moraines of Griffin Island. Also exciting.

_{Griffin Island}

_{Herring River}