SIMPLIFIED WORLD
This group of works is a conversation about human-wrought changes in the ecosystem. It is an exploration of the contrast between the clarity and wonder of the natural world as I perceived it in elementary school science and geography classes and the present instability of specific natural forms, both seen and unseen, which may soon disappear. The project was inspired in part by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, an inventory of the conservation status of the world’s biological species.
SIMPLIFIED WORLD
Installation View, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts,
UTEP, El Paso, TX, 2017
SIERRA MADERA DISTURBANCE
charcoal, gesso, map, 48” x 45”, 1994
ROMAN EMPIRE/ARA PACIS and CENTAUREA
charcoal, gesso, map,
69.5” x 47” x 3”, 2017
ASIA AFTER WWII/PANGOLIN and MALABAR MAHOGANY
charcoal, gesso, map, 40” x 57” x 3”, 2017
SIMPLIFIED WORLD/APLOMADA FALCON and GRASSES
charcoal, gesso, map, 50” X 68” x 3”, 2017
UNITED STATES W/MEXICO/DEEP WATER CORALS
charcoal, gesso, map,
85” x 68” x 3”, 2016
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS/CHAFFSEED and TCAP PHOTOS
charcoal, gesso, map, 49.5” x 68” x 3”, 2016
GEOCHART/PARIS ACCORD AND PITCHER PLANTS
charcoal, gesso, graphite, watercolor, map, 50” x 64.5” x 3”, 2017
SIMPLE RELIEF GLOBE/WATER WILLOW and TEXAS SPRINGS
charcoal, watercolor, gesso, graphite, 13.5” diameter x 20”, 2017
DELUXE GLOBE/QUIVER TREE and KING PROTEA
charcoal, gesso, watercolor, graphite, 16” diameter x 22”, 2017
LAND AND SEA GLOBE/VAQUITA and SEA DRAGONS
charcoal, gesso, watercolor, graphite, 13” diameter x 16”
TOPOGRAPHIC GLOBE/MONARCH BUTTERFLIES
charcoal, cochineal ink, gesso, globe, color pencil, walnut, chrome, 22” diameter x 33” w/ attached stand, 2017
LEARNING ABOUT FLOWERS
Animation with transforming charcoal drawings, 2016