Laura Lou Levy “Red River Gorge Series: Gaze” charcoal on paper, 11”H x 14”W, 2017, $500.00

For years I was seduced by the interaction of land, water, and light, always specific to place. I hiked and climbed there. I love charcoal for its immediacy, its responsiveness, and its surprises.
These drawings, part of a long, ongoing series, are from hikes in the Red River Gorge in my native Kentucky.  The Gorge is an exquisitely wild and beautiful geological area of rushing waters, mountainous trails, stone arches and cave-like spaces. The silent surface of the sandstone, the sensual and sometimes menacing shapes revealed, invade me. Part of the mystery of the place is the sense of the undiscovered, the hidden: the dark spaces, inviting us in.