6: Sunflower –May 2011; Acrylic on canvas 18’’X20’'

The assignment was an Extension of a Landscape. I was driving through Vermont with my parents on the way to visit my brother when we passed a field of dead sunflowers. Each stem was standing strong, however the heads of the flowers were flopped over dead, as if they were snapped at the conjunction of the stem and blossom. I wanted to convey this site with a lot of open space to parallel the vacant roads in the mountains of Vermont.