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TREE COLLAGE
I create pictorial allegories about Nature in which trees’ overarching presence completes us. My smartphone camera is my sketchbook, allowing me to record what I observe from unusual vantage points. I paint from these photos and then photograph the resulting paintings. Selecting emblematic parts, I simplify them in black and white, and then create a clear transparency. By carefully positioning colored papers beneath it, the concept I originally saw in the tree’s suggestive alignment attains concrete form as collage on paper. The photographic record now becomes a hybrid depiction of particular surroundings, remembered places, and relentless change. My view is that like human posture, a tree’s stance embodies agency, defiance, and guardianship. Our inseparability from Nature compels me to portray the environment through work that inspires an anthropomorphic view of the trees all around us.
