Acrylic on canvas, 24”x30”
The first in the series inspired by NASA images of land use patterns. NASA and the Smithsonian have extensive online photographic resources. I had been thinking about crop-circle patterns and was entranced when I found NASA images of the subject. Taken from way, way up, the circles, rectangles and diamonds, formed by irrigation infrastructure, crop types and land use constraints such as roads and power line easements, were mesmerizing in their colors and patterns. When I set about painting, I wasn’t interested in recreating what I had seen, but rather the feeling of it — the wonder of manmade patterns that enchant, that represent food for many, and that are slowly but surely degrading the soil, the local ecosystems and the aquifers.
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