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Open to the Sky: Roofless Log Cabin in Green Meadow

An old log cabin with no roof and empty doorways sits in a field of tall green grass. To its left stand a full green tree and a bare, leafless tree with light bark. Above, a deep blue sky is filled with white and dark blue-gray clouds. The whole scene has a brushy, painterly texture like oil paint on canvas.

A collector wants this because the ruined cabin is the whole story. A roofless log cabin with empty door and window openings sits in tall green grass, and above it is a saturated cobalt sky with dark-bellied, white-topped clouds. Beside it, a leafy green tree stands next to a bare, pale-barked dead tree. Together they carry a quiet theme of time passing, and the vivid blue and green keep that theme bright rather than gloomy. The brushy, oil-paint surface makes it feel like a handmade rustic western scene. Many cabin images are brown, muted or sepia. This one is built on a strong blue, green and weathered-brown contrast.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski