Yelena Klairmont:
As a landscape painter, I look closely at the world to record what I see. As
Human beings, we have burst the bounds of our bodies and freed ourselves from the laws of gravity seeing the world in a new way, viewing it as well from a cloud as from the forest floor.

Sometimes the perspective is immediate; details are close and intimate and there is no horizon. Sometimes the world is soft and distant. Edges are blurred the horizon descends. I use oil glazes in translucent layers in order to reveal the evanescent luminosity of things as they appear at various times of day and season.

When everything is bathed in the same light, the world takes on a subtle monochromatic hue and my entire palette shifts. My intention is to look closely at the world minute by minute, in a state of increasing wakefulness.

Ultimately, I am painting consciousness itself as it is revealed: Illuminated, incarnate, and fully materialized as the landscape we live in.

Caldwell Pond #16	Caldwell Pond #17
Urban Anywhere	Bears from Above