The Coast of Barcelona 15X38 Pastel and pencil on paper
The title The Coast of Barcelona is a line from Bob Dylan's Boots of Spanish Leather:
Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine
Made of silver or of golden
Either from the mountains of Madrid
Or from the coast of Barcelona
This drawing uses the colors of the Sagrada Familia and text from Walt Whitman's prose on trees. The Sagrada Familia interior, including the ceiling, is modeled on the canopy of trees as seen from below.
Aug. 4, 6 P. M.--Lights and shades and rare effects on tree-foliage and grass—transparent greens, grays, all in sunset pomp and dazzle. The clear beams are now thrown in many new places, on the quilted, seam’d, bronze-drab, lower tree-trunks, shadow’d except at this hour—now flooding their young and old columnar ruggedness with strong light, unfolding to my sense new amazing features of silent, shaggy charm, the solid bark, the expression of harmless impassiveness, with many a bulge and gnarl unreck’d before. In the revealings of such light, such exceptional hour, such mood, one does not wonder at the old story fables, (indeed, why fables?) of people falling into love-sickness with trees, seiz’d extatic with the mystic realism of the resistless silent strength in them—strength, which after all is perhaps the last, completest, highest beauty.
Walt Whitman