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Looking at the Hill Country landscapes of Dusty Pendleton reminds me of a remark Alan Watts made about the effortless action (wu-wei) idea in Chinese landscape painting, "The artist foregoes 'capturing' the landscape to just sit, sometimes for days, until emptied of ego, the landscape paints itself through him."
That reverence for nature as a living presence habituates the hills and rivers, fields and skies of his most recent work. In addition, through his use of crepuscular light, he invokes a haunting quality re-acquainting our imaginations with the nocturnal and the world of shadows. He renews the act of perception for us --- no small task, no more deftly handled.
--- Excerpted from the forthcoming
Hidden in the Hill Country: Profiles Along the Arts Trail,
Kirpal Gordon, 1999
