After the First Death and Burned at the Base, both watercolor on gesso, 76 x 50, photographed near Mazama, Washington.
Two of the largest paintings I've completed to date, done at the Banff Centre during my 2011 November-December residency there. Recently we took the paintings out to the snowy woods to photograph them wrapped around live trees, as if to say "what is the projected future of this tree? How does a painting of a burned tree contrast with a live, still-healthy forest?" But the image also provokes a mysterious visual dialog between real and unreal, subtle and exaggerated, bark and the paper made from it...
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