Offering a limited run in August of reproductions of the most recent watercolor from the Vulnerable Ecologies series. I began this painting during my 2022 Arts and Sciences dune shacks residency with the Peaked Hill Trust, in the Provincetown dunes.
Print is a custom size, 12.5" x 13" (the maximum I can create in my studio.) Archival inkjet. Prints are always backed using repurposed cardboard, and sleeved to ship (unless you request no sleeve to save on waste.) They ship flat.
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Some writing from that experience in the dunes:
"Shifting baselines syndrome is what scientists have named the phenomenon of each successive human generation taking for granted the status quo of the earth they are born into. Without our elders’ stories of how the earth was that they, or their parents or grandparents, knew, how can we know our own to be any different? In the absence of an oral tradition based in intimacy with the natural world, we do not see the rate or quality of change.
Our ancestors who fished learned their trade in a swarming ocean, their tools and methods perhaps appropriate for the abundance of marine animals swimming in those waters. Imagine the sky darkening with the passage of pigeons, and perhaps you can empathize with the ethos of the early European colonizers, that we should shoot down as many birds as possible to stock our larders, keep our families in meat.
We pass on our habits of relating to and taking from the land to our offspring. We teach them to survive as we did. We crave the familiar—the familiar—we crave to belong, we crave the cultures of our families. We cling to methods, tools, customs, sometimes long past their effectiveness or relevance, in the name of nostalgia or cultural identity.
Let us surrender our need for certainty and control now, in service to the real. Let us rekindle our awe and return to our senses.
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