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NATURE OBSERVED (2020-2018)
I see trees as stately metaphors of our collective fate. While my paintings are conceptual and operate on the psyche, they’re also visceral and serve as an investigation of the paradoxes of a subject that is simultaneously life-giving, life-preserving, and—should a tree catch fire or fall on you—deadly. In an excerpt from arts writer Genie Davis’ description of these larger paintings in Artillery Magazine: “One vast, wall-size painting offers twisted lines of land, flowers, trees, and seething sky reminiscent of Van Gogh; another older work gives us a war wrought by man … with the treads of tanks running through scattered children’s toys and shoes and a dark fire burning ominously across a bay. Edgy, prescient, and devastatingly beautiful.“
