Personifications

Since the pandemic began, coupled with a Yet Again war, we have been battered by uncertainty, helplessness, hopelessness and fear. This crescendo of despair has burned not just into our bones but has melted through us into the very terrain itself. Much like a child’s metastasizing certainty about the monsters under the bed, we are getting glimpses into the growing animus of a weary planet. Is Nature stirring towards an inescapable shrug that will alleviate the irritation of hairless apes? Are we driving towards a Silent Spring?

A metamorphosis of the ordinary can be revealed at an elevation between 4 and 400 feet. Seen from above, patterns, textures, and colors in the landscape reveal a temperament otherwise unseen. Vague impressions are formed; intricate patterns, reminiscences, revelations, even ghosts are conjured only to vanish on second glance. Abstraction allows topography to morph into imagination and embed itself in psyche.

The inhospitable reveals a subtle and delicate motif when the conceit of human eye level is relinquished.