The back porch of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation building is among my most treasured drawing spaces. From its windows I am able to see many of the town's distinctive pointed rooftops; layered bushes, trees, fields, and rocks that define the landscape; and the distant sea, always in motion.  My goal in this drawing was not to create a naturalistic description of a view, but to suggest the diverse richness of forms and spaces readily seen from this vantage point. Of importance are the ways individual forms, both man-made and in nature, are altered by shifts in light as time passes.  Specific motifs are selected from several sketchbook drawings, which I see as a record of life's evolution on multiple levels, both literal and metaphoric.          - Ruth Fine