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On a trip to Colorado in 2008, I saw a forest fire that was burning a grove of Aspen trees which gave me this image.

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Portfolios: Aspen Burning 2008
Location: Colorado, USA

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Comment by J.R. Phillips on June 9, 2016 at 3:14pm

Thank you for that warm welcome.  And thank you for your insightful comments.  My current work starts with my drawings and photography. Then I begin to sketch the 'bones' from the photography shapes with a color gesso on canvas.  Acrylic paint is my current median of choice.  But my 8yr old daughter and I are experimenting with high-flow acrylics on canvas like Patricia Coulter does. And as I get some good results, I will be posting them. Ciao!

Comment by Resident Curator on June 8, 2016 at 8:38pm

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Welcome to the site!  I do hope you’re planning to post more artwork, as I’m intrigued by the first two pictures of flowers and foliage.  The first piece Paper Flowers seems to be a straight forward, albeit manipulated picture of the crape myrtle blooms described. But the longer horizontal  work inspired by burning Aspen trees, Hell 2008 is quite a departure comparatively in its form and abstraction.  I like the stylization and brightly hued pattern that emerges from the scene.  Without the short narrative I might have identified the grove as Aspen or Birch, but the fiery color could be a stand in for natural or supernatural forces at work.  I don’t perceive the hot color as particularly threatening, as there seems to be fairly gradual translations of value and saturation.  The complementary green circular patches look like sun spots, enlarged water droplets or lichen.  This ambiguity interests me, and provides visual complexity if not conceptual clarity.  You don’t indicate the media or method to your process, but these two pieces look to be digitally manipulated.  Paper Flowers offers a fluid exchange between overt representation and seamless distortion or filtering, while Hell challenges perception about nature, beauty, and destruction.

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