Dawn of the Fossil Fuel Age
Painting Details
Watercolor on 140 lb Arches archival paper
15 x 22 unframed
$400 unframed
Two Tartes Cafe, Seattle, January 2009
Sunlight Cafe, Seattle, June 2009
Java Jahn's Espresso, February 2010
Seattle's Gasworks Park is a former coal gasification plant active from 1906 to the 1950's, made obsolete by imports of natural gas. Their simple forms, complex structures and rusty, mossy surfaces are visually compelling. In some ways they represent symbols of the infrastructure of our way of life. But are they aging monuments to our civilization? Will future generations wonder what we were thinking?
Pierre de Vries: "There’s something really interesting going on with the gasworks series. The compositions are getting more complex, and there’s a looseness in the handling which is really fascinating; some passages are beginning to verge on abstraction. Great stuff."