Acrylic paint, beeswax, graphite, collage on board
2020
16" x 9" for each painting
This piece examines memory and loss, the present and the future, survival and interconnection. Considering the present from a vantage point of the future, all that remains of the diminishing species of the world is human memory. That memory is represented by naturalist drawings. The title, an extract from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem "In Memoriam A.H.H.", refers to the slow, unceasing mutability of the Earth. It is our human capacity for record keeping that distills the passage of time into a comprehensible notion of change. This painting memorializes from a future perspective this epochal shift we are witnessing. The monarch and milkweed represent the tenuous interconnected system. As the monarch butterfly’s survival is dependent on milkweed, every organism is connected to the whole. Isolated in our own homes, at this moment we are especially feeling our interconnection to the greater community of humanity. By isolating the milkweed from the monarch butterfly I am bringing attention to their dependent relationship and how tenuous that relationship is.
*The title is a poem extract from Alfred Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H."
