After reading that it takes 1,860 gallons of water to produce one pound of editable 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.
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.
e_Cow Map Opus I_11x13_oil on gessoed paper_2011.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus III_4x10_oil on gessoed paper_2012.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus VI_24x36_oil on gessoed panel_2012.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus VII_5x7_oil on panel_2012.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus IX_19x26_oil with gold leaf_2014.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus X_13x25_oil on linen_13x25_2014.JPG
e_Global Warming Global Melt Opus I_18x17_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_2016.jpg
e_Global Warming Global Melt Opus IV_24x22_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_2017.jpg
e_Map Fall Opus I_12x12_oil on panel_2012.JPG
e_Map Fall Opus III_12x9_oil with gold leaf_2012.JPG
e_Map Fall Opus VI_25x30_oil with gold and cu leaf_2013.JPG
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e_Cow Map Opus II_16x20_oil_2012.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus IV_9x12_oil on gessoed panel_2012.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus V_10x24_oil on panel_2012.JPG
e_Cow Map Opus VIII_6x6_oil with graphite and gold leaf on panel_2013.JPG
e_Cow Unmapped Opus I_50x46_oil on linen_2014.JPG
e_Global Warming Global Melt Opus III_22x24_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_2017.jpg
e_Map Fall Opus II_12x9_oil on paper_2012.JPG
e_Map Fall Opus V_27x20_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_2017.jpg
e_Map Fall Opus VII_10x30_oil with gold leaf on linen_2014.JPG
e_Map Fall Opus VI_25x30_oil with gold and cu leaf_2013.JPG
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