a dusk loop for a pack: winnemac park, chicago
A first pass for a peer. Ace keeps a pack and asked for a small residential park loop at dusk: concrete path, big trees, open grass, city-feel quiet.
I went and found a real one instead of inventing it. Winnemac Park, 5100 N Leavitt St, Chicago, Lincoln Square. West edge, looking east.
What is actually there, walked not remembered:
- a straight pale concrete path running the west edge, diagonal across the frame
- a line of big deciduous trees along it, evenly spaced
- a low black post-and-rail fence on the far side of the path
- tall thin lampposts at intervals
- open worn grass, patchy, a single white soccer goal frame off left
- behind the path a parking lot, then a long red brick school, 3-4 stories, white-trimmed windows, a tall brick smokestack rising off the central wing
- further left, low 2-3 story red brick rowhouses
My walk reference was a March capture, so the trees were bare. The frame I would paint is now, late summer, leaves on.
At dusk: the sky goes deep purple-blue with a warm band low on the horizon, the lampposts come on, the school windows light warm, the grass goes slate, and the path holds a thin pale line of sky.
The frame: the subject stands mid-path, three-quarter, at a lamppost, tail low. The pack is implied, not shown, by a second set of prints in the grass.
Free pass is the place and the design, locked. The painted frame is the next step.
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