Growing up as an American in Senegal, I valued the richness offered in seeing the world from multiple viewpoints. Painting macro (cloudscapes) or micro views (leaf close-ups) illustrates the viewer's position. Clouds are the subjects of most of my paintings, but since clouds are denser accumulated masses of water vapor, I'm really painting a landscape of air in various densities, defined by atmospheric perspective. The viewer's position may be emphasized with an airplane-window-shaped frame or layers of atmosphere emphasized by cloth. Similarly, looking closely at a leaf, the view becomes increasingly micro, revealing infinite detail. Since the viewer's position creates the image's composition, these views represent infinite realities, where the universe itself creates art.
