Broken Landscapes

Broken Landscapes addresses the images of landscape and cityscape through ambiguous viewpoints.  The images allude to the anonymity of today’s urban life, alienation from ancestral homeland being a common and universal denominator.  In a world where a contemporary norm is one of dislocation and displacement, the imagery is a soliloquy to this search for home.  The image of urbanity is one that can be understood as allegorical – landscape and cityscape seen as mirrors of each other, and cultural differences being lost in a world where cultural sampling in becoming increasingly the norm.

Broken Landscapes: Wilderness #2, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Wilderness #2, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #2, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #2, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #5, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #5, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Stagnant #2, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Stagnant #2, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Stagnant #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Stagnant #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirage #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirage #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012

Broken Landscapes: Mirror #3, oil paint and archival ink on board, 36” x 48”, 2012