An Art Project Several Years in the Making

The project began with a simple photo of a blue truck alongside a train track. When I was younger I would go to this particular spot almost everyday to smoke weed, and on certain evenings for sexual liaisons with my girlfriend of the time. I would always park my car in the same position, just to the right of the rusted yellow posts, and that blue truck would always be there, months and months, even years without moving, until the day they finally towed it away. One night I went there on mushrooms, and there was a thin fog everywhere, bright orange from the harbor lights and the streetlights.
One of the last times I went there with that old girlfriend she had a camera with her, a digital Nikon she was using for some photography class project. I snapped a photo with it, then I put the photo onto the computer. Despite the fact that the photo was taken in broad daylight, I managed to photoshop it into the image you see above, an imitation of my memory from the mushroom trip weeks before. I liked how it turned out, but part of me always wished it was a painting instead of a photograph. Now, after a considerable amount of work, that dream has finally become a reality. It took me several months of off and on work, but I've pretty much finished the painting version of this project I started more than seven years ago. Check it out!