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| Reception: October 4, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
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My work refers to Brazilian travels, specifically along the Amazon River Basin. Naturalistic forms resembling beehives, vertebrae, cocoons, anthills, plant forms and insects are spread across the surface of the work. My palette is often subdued beneath a layer of darkness, suggesting mystery. The work transcribes a memory of objects and impressions of what was seen and felt.
Brazil and the Amazon River Basin have been the subject and inspiration for my work for more than twenty-two years. Visiting the region now three to four times a year I find that the landscape has many moods. The Amazon River is an apt metaphor for the act of churning up remembered objects and sights, gathered while traveling along its rough course. In its flow, the river boils an object to the surface only to swallow it up again to resurface later. These impressions are a memory of the river bound on both sides by a high, dark jungle; foreboding and beautiful. If it takes you in, it takes you in whole.
These paintings deal with the contrast and conflict between the beauty of the Amazon and its continued destruction. Modern man sees the rainforest as a tremendous resource. And at the same time we are in the process of depleting it. Although the indigenous groups have lived harmoniously in that environment for generations, we cannot find the balance needed to protect this resource for the future.
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