Last Legs

Photo of Suze Woolf burned tree painting
 

 
 
Painting Details
Varnished watercolor on torn paper
52" x 24"
 
 
Seen on a walk in Spirit Park in Vancouver, B.C., which used to be called "The Endowment Lands." The University of British Columbia was given a large part of the West Vancouver peninsula as a way of raising funds to support its endeavors. I'm sure this stump was logged and burned over a hundred years ago as part of that operation.

As the climate warms, forest fires are becoming more frequent and catastrophic in the western United States. My deep anxiety with the impacts of climate change on wilderness are emerging in this series. Burned-over areas of forest are riveting. Unfamiliar tree forms are newly exposed. Formerly hidden terrain features become visible. Normal greens, blues and browns are transformed. All the worst fires of the last fifty years have occured in the last five years.

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