Appalachian Floor

Original 30" x 36"

In the early 1980's I was hiking a familiar trail up a mountain north of Westfield, Pennsylvania. I kept hopping over the same small stream and finally took some time to rest beside it and watch the chipmunks as they scurried around. The closer I got to the ground, the more I realized what a different view of the landscape some of our smaller creatures had. In our thicker forests some of these small life forms virtually never saw sky. Any rain they felt was dripped on them through the canopy above. I decided to do a painting of that spot through the chipmunk's perspective, a rodent's view of the forest floor.