My paintings of mountains and landscapes play on themes of human erasure of the natural world. These monuments of earth seem impossible to destroy yet we are constantly attempting to tame and control. I approach each painting bombastically using 5-7 softwares to erase and layer the previous. These fictitious landmarks are abstracted abstractions of the true thing. Frankenstein’s monster of living environments. The resulting paintings leave a sense of sublime and calm, averse to our collective thoughts on natural preservation. Toying with the ideas of “man vs nature” and vice versa the goal is to deconstruct the archetype and expose intentions plainly. The natural world as many assume is ours to conquer and terraform into the idealistic. However, we ourselves are the entropic character in the ultimate and unavoidable event.
