WHITEOUT

"Whiteout" (2024) is a series of small acrylic paintings on canvas depicting blinding snowstorm events. A rare and unexpected blizzard pushed through the Donner Summit in my home state of California on March 1, 2024. Screening of real-time news footage of the I-80 closure, and inevitable logjam of stalled vehicles, was complimented by storm-chaser video of near white-out conditions off-road at the summit. The sheer blinding force of this phenomena lead to this consideration of nature's overwhelming power to completely stop modern movement.