Easter Island, WA
Painting Details
Watercolor on 140 lb Arches archival paper
15 x 22 unframed
$400 unframed
Kenmore Art Festival 2008
Eastside Association of Fine Arts December 2008 (MIVAL and Bellevue Frame Awards)
Two Tartes Cafe, Seattle, WA January 2009
Java Jahn's Espresso February 2010
Gasworks Park is a former gasification plant that is now part of a city park in Seattle, Washington. It strikes me as a noble but ambiguous symbol: formerly leading edge technology indicative of our dependence on fossil fuels. The little flaps at the tops of the tanks reminded a friend of the Easter Island statues. Its inhabitants cut down all their trees in order to build and move their giant statues. As Jared Diamond says in his book, Collapse, "what was going through the mind of the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island?"
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."