Farm land
Recently on our trip across the Midwest of the USA, I reflected upon how different farm life is in Asia. In all of our traveling across Asia, we noticed that people actually work in the farms. They tend to the crops with their hands, they gather together in the fields, whole families and villages, to harvest or plant.
In the USA, as we drove through hundreds of miles of farm fields, we could not spot a single solitary working man or tractor in sight.
Everything is done automatically by industrial size machines.
This is a photo of the watering system used in all of the farm fields today.
You will not see a people on the fields.
M point is that the food that we eat, that is so much a part of our lives, is no longer grown in a way that brings people together. It has become a sterile process.
I also reflect on the fact that the charm and beauty of the fields that existed for centuries, is no longer there. As a painter, I find the people bending to plant or to harvest in the fields, to be extremely picturesque.
I do not feel inspired to paint big machinery in an open field.
Farm Land in the USA:
