White House and Forest In A Box 1971

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Comment by Resident Curator on March 17, 2022 at 11:17am

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I believe I may have overlooked this surprising mixed media construction when it was posted back in 2012, as I was taken in by your more colorful paintings. White House and Forest in a Box, appears to depict a small house burned out by fire.  The charring of its white surface is a starling contrast to the organic elements that make up the trees and background. The dark ground interestingly presents simultaneously as a singed and carbonized forest floor, or naturally rich soil. It appears that a panoramic photograph was used to portray a mountainous expanse behind the trees. For me, the illusion of a vast space inside a small sculptural work creates tension in the visual paradox. The burning of the man-made structures amplifies this friction between human -made and ecological surrounds.