imagined memories of an easier time

headphones on - I round the corner of the street and when the sun hits my face I smell the countryside. a farmhouse, somewhere in northern Europe. in a town where I have never been. I feel a wave of simultaneous contentment and sadness. This series is a kind of meditation for me. It starts as a freeform sketch, drawn - usually by hand on a small notecard - without any thoughts on what the image should be. I follow the lines that my subconscious mind creates, and find the image that is trying to be born from it. There is no intentional stylistic or thematic relationship to the images here, aside from the process used in creation.