Where’s Piper opens with a monumental rocky form, sculpted in greys and textured layers, set against a radiant gold sky where a weathered orb suggests sun or moon. Below, fragments of turquoise water and pale pathways cut through the darkness, creating a landscape that feels at once geological and dreamlike. The painting evokes a mysterious stage where presence and absence collide.
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Where’s Piper opens with a monumental rocky form, sculpted in greys and textured layers, set against a radiant gold sky where a weathered orb suggests sun or moon. Below, fragments of turquoise water and pale pathways cut through the darkness, creating a landscape that feels at once geological and dreamlike. The painting evokes a mysterious stage where presence and absence collide.
Here Kitterle moves between the solidity of stone and the shimmer of atmosphere, contrasting rough impasto surfaces with luminous metallic fields. The title’s enigmatic call—Where’s Piper—introduces a narrative tension, suggesting a missing figure, a guide, or even a mythological echo. Like Byzantine icons or Klimt’s gilded canvases, the gold leaf background situates the work between material and transcendence. Yet the fractured terrain aligns with modern abstraction, echoing the haunting landscapes of Anselm Kiefer. The result is a meditation on loss, endurance, and the search for meaning within ruins.
