More about Ecstatic Nature

 

The feeling of riding a wave, being lifted off the sea floor; or standing on frozen ground looking up at a starry sky overarching the countryside. Ecstatic Nature is about floating, vaulting, leaving the ground but staying connected to it. The more you know about how deeply connected we are in nature—mixing together our ties to land, water, and air—the more elated and freer you get, and the paradoxical sense of that makes the ecstasy all the more intense. The ground you walk on, the rocks you touch are that old! The here you think of was not always here. In this romance with nature, it embraces us and knows us as much as we know it, creates a feeling of lightness, floating, brokenness, openness, and redemptive ecstasy. 

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The figure is supported by a single arm that grows down into roots made of copper tubing and reinforced cement. Each part of the figure makes a different kind of connection to nature—organic materials, visual analogs, wild color juxtapositions, holes in bark that look like eyes. The facial expression is wonder. Volumes of space are only suggested, giving it a sense of openness. Textures and colors race through around the figure.