Landscape Interventions
In these striped paintings on cyanotypes, color and pattern obscure and fragment the landscape. The cyanotype blue used to represent the landscape suggests the unnatural or something human-made. It refers to the human shaping of forested spaces over time. The painted stripes fragment the landscape and allude to the effects of climate change, deforestation, and forest degradation. Color interactions vary within the stripes. Up close, subtle changes in hue and value can play with color relativity. From a distance, the visual reading arises from an impressionistic optical mixing. Hues arrange themselves in larger shifts of light, with color progressions defining a flat pictorial space that offers glimpses of a deeper landscape behind.
The color patterns also reference my experiences while walking in the forest, and embody elements of time, sequence, and rhythm. Walking has become an integral part of my methodology, revealing a layered experience that ranges from a meditative act to a dialogue between my art and the environment. The work invites the viewer to engage in this conversation.
