McLeod Plantation

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Comment by Resident Curator on July 3, 2016 at 5:18pm

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McLeod Plantation came up in a random search today, and I should have immediately recognized the juicy brushwork familiar in your other Eden/house paintings.  But this piece does have a slightly different handing of the space; more defined architecturally, with comparatively subdued color choices. Absent are the allegorical swirling arch ways or serpents writhing in low hanging trees.  But the white cabins do possess an otherworldly quality, both in ghostly color and in the manner in which the blue-violet blocks underneath them lift and float the structures.  While they don’t bring to bear individual characters, I do see a personification in the grouping.  The verdant green and violet trees sway down, gesturing to the cabins, as if in their own linear formation, point to the difference between nature and culture.  The brief descriptive text contextualizing the landscape supports the feeling of a (bleak) history suspended, up against natural growth and progress.