POUR AND TILT

In his previous career in his seven years as an aerospace engineer working on air and missile defense, Clark Abt often viewed landsat images of various parts of Earth's surface.

 

"In experimenting with Pour and Tilt brushless painting on the grassy lawn of the courtyard of my company on hot summer days during my lunch hour, I was excited to find the mixing of different colors and viscosities on the canvas by tilting the poured paints strongly resembled the diverse landscapes of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, islands, and seas as seen from orbit in landsat images. This reinforced my earlier experience as a USAF recon navigator, flying all over NATO Europe and North Africa at diverse altitudes. For my choice of forms and colors, I observed a Thoreau maxim of "observe nature." 

 

I lacked a studio and sufficient time for proper brush-cleaning given my use of mixed media, so brushless Pour and Tilt painting on my grassy courtyard lawn fit into my very busy days running a rapidly growing company, specializing in experimental methods of socioeconomic programs evaluation."