Does this look like a photograph?
It's not…it's a painting by Gregory Thielker, who this year completed a series of phenomenally accomplished from-the-front-seat paintings called Under the unminding sky.
Thielker writes:
These paintings beame a way to explore how driving in weather shifts and changes the views outside the car as well how the driving experience informs our basic interpretation of the environment…In the case of driving, the abstraction and distortion of the water are indexical to the windshield (as smoke can be traced to fire). The result is that painting, per se, can summon a pre-verbal experience, slipping outside of static references and into a gesalt of sensation, both fixed and fluid.
I buy that, actually. So much of our lives today we see through the windshield. It's only natural that the windshield itself should become a shortcut to what we feel.
The painter is now in India on a Fullbright-Nehru grant, blogging and painting the Grand Trunk Road.
Kit Stolz 
Very cool post, Mr Stolz. Great stuff. Keep it up.
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This is a painting? You’re joking, right? I’ve seen a few paintings that looked more than real and it always amazes me to see that. He really ‘got’ nature into that picture.
And regarding seeing the world through a windshield – maybe that’s what keeps us out of touch with nature. Because we are disconnected and don’t really see and feel the feedback / consequences of our doings. If there was no windshield we’d eventually learn a lot quicker that actions cause reactions.
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