Artworks > Tangle Tree Abstract Painting
TANGLE TREE ABSTRACT PAINTING (2022-2018)
I paint trees in bold colors because something exciting is continually happening: the seemingly calm and quiet forest is engaged in “heavy lifting.” How else would you describe the onerous job to manufacture and purify the air we breathe? Whenever I’m in the presence of trees there’s surprise and delight in noticing how anthropomorphic they are—witnessing their curiously intertwining branches, their perpetual sentinel-like stances, their protecting canopies, and their collective ability to convey through leaves and trunks that all is well in the soil and the air or that something is amiss. Knowing that these arboreal giants share nutrients with neighboring root aggregates is a provocative and reassuring fact, echoing human social interaction. The shapes and shadows at the base of the canvas point to these interconnections.
