“He’s showing us in the natural world our own inner landscape,” said [collector Bernard] Lumpkin, who owns four Gavin canvases. “When you’re inhabiting a painting by Cy, you’re inhabiting a world which is simultaneously strange and familiar; real and surreal; local and foreign.”

(Robin Pogrebin, “A Modern Take on the Hudson River School Tradition,” New York Times, 2-1-23)

The manscape I inhabit’s belly button is simultaneously inward and outward.

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