Fire Season
43 x 31 in (h x w)
Grief
Drought caused by changing climate patterns has left the American west tinder dry. Forest fires burning thousands of acres are now an annual occurrence. The flames come, and leave behind devastation. Wild fires have a kind of terrible beauty and make for glorious sunsets. But I grieve for all that has gone up in flames, symbolized by the burned trees. The delineation between abstraction and representation acknowledges the terrible beauty without minimizing the loss of habitat.