The watercolor paintings presented here are intimate, direct, and observational. They depict the coastline near Owl’s Head, Maine—a place of deep personal significance—and reflect a lifelong engagement with this landscape. I’ve returned to this shoreline since I was a boy, to a house my grandmother built, painting en plein air using watercolor to respond with immediacy to shifting light, weather, and tides. This body of work is rooted in attention and presence, and while it stands apart from my more process-driven installation work, it also informs it. The sensitivity to light, space, and layered transparency that defines these watercolors parallels many of the concerns I explore through more experimental means in the studio.