"It got dark when we were out and then coming back, just looking at the stars through the overhanging cypresses and stuff was really pretty, he says."
"I guess any painting is a self-portrait in its own way," he surmises. "Maybe some more than others, though."
"You always see birds," Seckel says. "Birds and trash. That's the edge of all the swamps around here."
"It takes a lot of the labor out of printing stuff," says Seckel, adding that it has become a "community resource" as well."
My Little Corner of the World contains a painting-within-a-painting inspired by a nighttime kayaking excursion, including stars seen through overhanging cypresses. A painting like My Little Corner of the World functions as a self-portrait in some senses, yet the artist focuses on the painting's spatial concerns rather than literal self-expression. Wetlands takes its source from a site where large electrical poles rise from swampy ground, an environment marked by birds and discarded trash along its edge. Railroad tracks provide similar found imagery. The artist also produces zines using two salvaged Risograph printers, favoring their one-color-at-a-time aesthetics and community utility.
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