These works function similarly to location photos in film, or in this case "location paintings." The images suggest places of narrative happenings: in some cases points of departure, in others points of transition or edits.
In July 2010, I exhibited the first installment of the series "Vague Longings," which traced "a journey both imagined and autobiographical" through the Newfoundland landscape where I was living at the time: a combination of fog, myth and emptiness.
In this second installment of works, "Vague Longings II," my intention was to present a "before" and "after" to the previous works, in the manner of bookends. Consequently, these paintings, which draw on a broad range of material done in various media over the last ten years, complete this imagined and autobiographical journey.
Peter Sabat
November 2010
