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Cow Maps,  Map Falls
Global Warming

After reading that it takes 1,860 gallons of water to produce one pound of edible beef, I started painting cows from a series of photographs I had taken at a county fair.  As I made studies, the lineup of black and white Holstein cows began to look like a map, and as I kept painting, a high horizon line emerged. 

​This lead me to think of them as “Map Falls”—meaning that the map is changing and it looked like water was “falling” over the edge of the earth.  It made me think of water from glacier melting, pouring into the oceans and changing the shape of every coast line with higher sea levels.  The most recent paintings are called “Global Warming, Global Melt”, some showing the world as we know it and others anticipate a global map that is unrecognizable. 

Cow Maps

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Cow Map Opus I
11x13 oil on gessoed paper
2011
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Cow Map Opus III
4x10 oil on gessoed paper
​2012
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Cow Map Opus VI
24x36 oil on gessoed panel
2012

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Cow Map Opus VII
5x7 oil on panel
2012

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Cow Map Opus IX
19x26 oil with gold leaf
2014
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Cow Map Opus X
13x25 oil on linen
2014

Map Falls

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Map Fall Opus I
12x12 oil on panel
2012

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Map Fall Opus III
12x9 oil with gold leaf
2012

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Map Fall Opus IV
16x20 oil on  gessoed panel
2013

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Map Fall Opus VI
30x25 oil with gold and cu leaf on linen
2013

Global Warming

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Global Warming Global Melt Opus I
18x17 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen
2016

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Global Warming Global Melt Opus IV
24x22 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen
2017

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Cow Map Opus II
16x20 oil
2012
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Cow Map Opus IV
9x12 oil on gessoed panel
2012
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Cow Map Opus V
10x24 oil on panel
2012
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Cow Map Opus VIII
6x6 oil with graphite and gold leaf on panel
2013
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Cow Unmapped Opus I
50x46 oil on linen
2014

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Map Fall Opus II
12x9 oil on paper
2012

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Map Fall Opus V
27x20 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen
2017

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Map Fall Opus VII
10x30 oil with gold leaf on linen
2014

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Map Fall Opus VIII
30x48 oil with  gold and copper leaf
2016

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Global Warming Global Melt Opus II
25x25 oil with gold leaf on linen
​2016

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​Global Warming Global Melt Opus III
22x24 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen
2016

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Global Warming Global Melt Opus V
50x50 oil with gold leaf on linen
2018

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