Distant Places is about perspective and longing to be anywhere but now and here, the very places we are confounded by and are challenged to embrace because in the end that is all we have - Now and Here. The murkiness of fantasy is represented by the greys, both vast and at the same time, overwhelming. The distance of land symbolizes how out of reach fantasy is; we become dangerously close to taking everything we have for granted and feel lost at sea.
As I have been transient for so much of my life, I marvel at how many people wish they were anywhere and anyone else; they build fantasies about Distant Places in their minds and hearts but the cruel reality is one simply cannot escape the now and here of their realities.
I have learned to embrace both; the imagination of Distant Places but an appreciation of my reality, messy as it is, because that is all I have.
