Highway 9 Revisited recalls a rainy, humid day leaving Saskatchewan, Canada. Driving along an expansive stretch of road, wet with swift and powerful highway cross-winds: the sudden appearance of a small funnel cloud and rain pounding against the prairie floor.

The drama and spectacle of wave after wave of cloud shadow and thrashing rain was followed in cycles by blankets of brilliant late afternoon sunlight. Clouds glowing to gold, Paynes grey, black and silver foregrounds were stretched in all directions. Following the storm, vivid colours from the soaked ground sprang up across the vast flat landscape amidst the prairie sky.

For Keith, cutting and separating painted imagery allows for narrative potential. The element of chance is also one of intrigue. Allowing the individual pieces to fall and determine the composition poses another set of considerations and challenges previously unforeseen.  Likewise, activating a specific memory and sensation rests on boundless faith and trust in process, not merely of recall. In turn, chance becomes a strategy with which to aid and understand the process of recollection. The interplay of working on location and the activation of sensory memories play a vital role in the development of the work upon return to the studio.