Earlier this year, in May, I discovered a small empty plot that was overgrown with large trees and tall grass. I nicknamed the location Twisty Groove. In the middle of the lot is a fallen, sun-bleached tree with some sort of flexible ventilation piping wrapped around it by some intrepid artist. It is a fascinating motif, and these empty lots have a way of getting developed so I decided to make a few paintings in the area. In July I went back and painted butterflies, although the grass was so tall I could barely see the twisted pipe around the tree. Today I managed to find my way here from the rue Pullman bridge, then east along Notre Dame just past the Turcot interchange. It looks like someone had weed-whacked, so I could get a good view of the fallen tree and twisted ventilation pipe. It was as if the tree and the pipe were embracing, in the sense of a python snake resting in the sun on a tree branch. In the background is the Glen hospital looming on the horizon.
Twisty Groove Embrace, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025
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