Original artwork description:

The painting- one of a series of four- was intended as an unconventional, composite landscape. The subject is an incongruous, towering, sculptural mound of refuse in a still forest clearing. Caspar David Friedrich's landscapes and their quest for the sublime were a departure point for this series; I also wanted to create a tension between the surface effect (impasto oil) and the pictorial detail and jumble of planes. I want the viewer to appreciate the contrast of the man-made and the organic- the entropy and 'ruin lust' and the sculptural sublimity in these contradictory yet complementary elements.

Materials used:

oil

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