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     In a painting it is important to, suggest things, rather than be too literal, letting the eye and the imagination complete the image : to see with the mind’s eye. The idea of suggesting landscape without the typical motif of foreground- background- sky is intriguing. It brings up the question what exactly is a landscape? Is a skyscape a landscape? 

      The sky above is such a vast thing.  Delightful to contemplate such an expanse, difficult to translate in a painting unless there is some sort of reference point.  Sometimes it is a strip of land at the bottom of the picture that provides a perspective: something to provide orientation and grounding.  In the Laundry Line the landscape is implied. The perspective is domestic, a gaze over the laundry line: will the sun come out today? The clothes pin is foreshortened,   giving a hint of where the vanishing point must be. The line breaks up the space and suggests where the foreground lies: somewhere outside the picture where the viewer stands.