Environmental Impact

After weeks of planning, the Environmental Impact Exhibition if finally up and lit. I am gratified by the overall quality of the installation. Many hands came together in various way to produce a visual dialogue about the natural world and the ways that we as artists, relate to the changing environment. It is interesting to see the way the work begins to build meaning from the other work in the Gallery until it seems as if it was conceived in itself, a work of art. I was too tired to shoot anything today, but will put up some installation shots ASAP.
I put two pieces in from 2001, work that was done just after 9/11. I found myself unable to do the abstract work that I had been doing. I felt that at any moment, it could all be wiped out. There is a kind of luminous color in the work, as if the threat of going to war again heightened my sense of color. The work is sort of styled in application, as if the natural world is whirling around the viewer, even though there are recognizable trees, water, roots... the sense of it being captured by a hand that might not have much time left and wanted to get in as much as quickly as possible.