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"Heavy Metal"
"Heavy Metal"
Oil on canvas, 40" x 30"
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This is a taconite plant on the North Shore of Minnesota.  It was bitter cold.  Lake Superior was semi-frozen.  It was just breezy enough to penetrate a down coat.  From the highway you really couldn't see much of the lake, but I had an instinct about this so hiked up the steep, icy embankment to get a better look.  I was sure the plant's "NO TRESPASSING!" sign was just a suggestion.  As I reached the top, I turned and was rewarded with a breathtaking view of the lake.  (The odor coming from the plant's smoke stack was breathtaking as well.)  This is the same location as seen in my painting "Plan B".  As I stood there shivering, taking reference photographs in all directions, I suddenly got a little nervous and slid my way back to the car.

A few weeks later when flipping through those photos, I remembered what I felt up there.  My emotions had been mixed:  the awe of witnessing grandeur and the thrill of breaking the law (not something I'm accustomed to doing.)  It put me in mind of edgy, uninhibited, self-destructive youth. I was compelled to include a few of them in this scene. And so you see a rough likeness of Kurt Cobain sitting on the apex of the roof, having repelled the building first, then tethering a rope to the chimney for, say, Layne Staley and three others to follow. I figured this might be a likely pasttime for the uneasy souls of those whose lives were unnecessarily cut short.  I do miss them and their music.  But now, everytime I drive past that plant, I'll look up and wonder.

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