The Pacific: The Sea

Above are details of below,
The full Courbet,
The full Carmel,
Or Balbec waters,
At Redondo?

Acrylic on canvas, 2-5 August 2007, 7x24 inches.

But before all this I had drawn back my own curtains, impatient to know what Sea it was that was playing that morning by the shore... For none of those Seas ever stayed with us longer than a day. The next day there would be another, which sometimes resembled its predecessor. But I never saw the same one twice.

~Place-names: The Place, À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust, Volume I, 1919, (Moncrieff-Kilmartin), page 757.

Acrylic on canvas, (1 through 4), 3 -6 August 2007, 7x14 inches.