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Scorched Earth

My intention in this series of work was to reflect on the environmental condition that we all face in the 21st Century. It was intended to be a forward and backward look at our planetary origins through my artistic and spiritual lens and to respond to the plethora of literary, scientific and media attention the environment has received. The modern Genesis or creation subtext captures this retrospective idea (see enclosed).

Despite the ever darkening picture, a semblance of optimism still remains to remedy the impending global catastrophe. I aspire to evoke that hope in the vital use of colour, form and indeed in the arrangement of the show beckoning the viewer to step back and see that increasingly battered earth fraught by floods, melting ice, tornadoes, tidal waves, human hunger and poverty due to drought and animal extinction.

It is my sincere intention that through a visual and emotional experience the viewer can figuratively stand back and look at our threatened planet and even ones own current predicament and challenge ourselves to make changes in the way we are living to avert this scenario.

A significant percentage of the profits is directed to the Canadian Catholic Organization: Development and Peace, of which I am a member. www.devp.org

I will be traveling to Africa this year to gain more insight into what life is like there.


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Genesis Interpretation

As we know, God created the Earth out of the mist and the void and it was good. (Ethereal Mist 1)

The land was separated from the sky and the stars and the seas and it was good. (Ethereal Mist 1) (Stellar view2) (Paradise 6)

And on the next day rocky formations were developed and it was good.
(8,9,10 )

And he formed a paradise for man and woman to live in. And it was a blissful place. And he gave man free will and the ability to love and be creative. But man was tempted and banished from paradise but, he was still had the capacity to be good. (Paradise 6)

And he and the earth began to bear beautiful fruit and to flower. And he was given stewardship over the earth. And it was good.

And the earth and man conceived new life (Conception 8); and he sometimes achieved spiritual peace, love (Still Point 9) and much wisdom in his old age (Integration 10) if he knew Goodness and Joy. He did not thirst. And that was good.

In the moments of silence much virtue developed but so did vice and it was not good and man suffered. ( Lost Innocence, 7 triptych). Gradually tribes and alliances were formed some for good and others that were malicious and avaricious.( A Nod to Lescaux 4)

But man was still redeemed by the Creator’s Love and capable of good. But when pride, avariciousness, and jealousy ruled, the earth cried out and the balance of nature was no longer good. Man knew little joy. The choleric planet ruled; heat and drought ravaged it. Man thirsted for peace. The earth was no longer good. (Desiccated,11). But man was still capable of choice.

Now how will man write the end of the story or will it return to void or the mist ? (Ethereal Mist,12)or the LIGHT.