This painting was a bit of an experiment, another attempt at doing something new and being abstract. Like "Untitled Reading" this painting has a human element not seen in most of my earlier work. The two girls lounge in the reeds by a stream that flows by their West Virginia home town, as a massive Y6b steam engine works a mine run. The girls are teenagers, on the brink of woman-hood... and what's in the bottle they're drinking? Could the girl in red be posing for the engineer just a little bit?
