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NATURE FRAGILE
2016-Ongoing 'Nature Fragile' is a series that documents my response to the devastating impact of human beings on the natural world. In these paintings, I am seeking to convey both our planet's delicate beauty and inexorable fragility; to explore the balance between resilience and increasing vulnerability.
For example, 'La Pière de La Nature' is a painting that was inspired by the small external frescos and alcoved altar pieces I noticed around the streets of Florence. I was told that these were used during the plague of 1348 (though some date back as far as pre-Christian Roman times) when it was too dangerous for people to congregate in large numbers. These modest markers allowed for solitary prayer at a time when a desperate, frightened people must have felt that they were facing their own extinction. Likewise, the intimate altar within the painting is imploring us to notice an encroaching obliteration of the natural world.
“There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to “know nature” on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way.” (Carolyn Merchant)