Punchbowl Flagpole

Suze Woolf burned tree painting

Painting Details
Varnished watercolor on torn paper
52" x 10"
 
Seen on a hike near Playa Summer Lake in southeast Oregon's high-desert Basin and Range. Winter Rim, above Summer Lake, has had multiple fires over the years. This one was in an east-facing volcanic bowl with views out to the playa.

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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