This continuing series - In Search of Lost Glaciers - was inspired by my visit to the now desert-like portion of Kluane Lake in the Yukon. The southern portion of the lake is no longer fed by the Kaskawulsh Glacier as it recedes. The oil diffused on concrete intimates the existence of something past that eroded over time, left its mark and no longer exists. This series is part of the 25,000 mile journey from the Rio Grande to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean. The work is purposeful in its use of concrete as a base and speaks to the large issues of urban and industrial expansion. Thin layers of raw concrete respond to thinned oil pant as water color does to paper, infusing and staining. Reminiscent of dissipated salt on winter sidewalks, each work invokes a recognizable and common experience while engaging the much large concerns of receding glaciers and that which drove me In Search of Lost Glaciers.
In Search of Lost Glaciers: Concrete, oil paint on canvas.
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