"State of the Forest" Installation Photograph, Environmental Impact II, Produced by David J. Wagner, L.L.C. (Photo Courtesy of The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL)
Up to 1000 square feet
The original paintings are from burned trees all over western North America from many different forest fires. In this way they represent all fires. Many are shown in the Burnscape section of this site. By using fabric to represent this grove, I convey that the forests we take as permanent are in fact fragile. A number of the individual paintings are shown the Burnscape section.
In 2018 ten were installed in a downtown Seattle storefront thanks to Shunpike's Storefronts initiative.
(Champ Emsinger photo)
In 2017, twelve original paintings were installed at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, mounted on board and suspended from the ceiling. It was an artistic peak moment.
They were also installed at the Museum of Northwest Art's 2016 Surge Festival and a blog post describes the complex process of production and installation.
Many thanks to Arisa Brown and First2Print/DesignWorks International, New York for all their assistance in assembly and printing.