" ... this fine fragment of Nature... "

23, Jan. 2018

Chase, traveling along the California coast, south of Big Sur

succinctly captures a universal muse. Haven't we all wished

we could, in paint, reproduce the beautiful scenes we

experience in Nature? And do we not all fall prey to the

' deadly incubus of experience, ' familiarity at times,

and take things for granted? And for those who have stood

on the wild northern California coast have you not felt

the ' largeness and freedom ' Chase describes?

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California Coast Trails

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" The afternoon was bright, ... and I traveled slowly, 

reveling in the romping wind and the splendid 

color-play of the sea...Again, I longed to be a painter,

a great painter, one to whom the subjectiveness,

the spirituality, of color should be known, who might

transcribe this fine fragment of Nature in all its material

and immaterial beauty.

There is a largeness and freedom about this little-visited

coast that puts the mind under stimulus, and almost

rids one of that deadly incubus of experience which

so sadly dulls the edge of our impressions. "

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