ARTWORK
TREE STORIES SERIES
pastels on paper, for commissions and inquiries please email amoexpression@gmail.com
My tree stories begin by being present during meditative walks in nature. Whether in an urban setting like Central Park, NYC or the Mashomack Preserve in Shelter Island, NY, my senses become hyper-aware around trees. My spirit attunes to specific trees, stumps, branches, trunks and the stories they have to tell. I take many photos and after much thought, I choose specific ones to turn into pastel paintings. By telling their story, I become part of it. I am the conduit by which the message is told.
These visual stories reference animism, deep ecology and the mystical power of trees and everything around them. Whether a stone, stick, fungi, leaves or grass, its complete composition makes up a unified, sacred space of transcendence and transformation. I am most intrigued by severed trees and their broken-openness, for it is in that state that I can see into their soul. A soul in a continuum to its next form.
Many of my pieces are done on shizen paper, which is 100% made from recycled materials.
AMO
These visual stories reference animism, deep ecology and the mystical power of trees and everything around them. Whether a stone, stick, fungi, leaves or grass, its complete composition makes up a unified, sacred space of transcendence and transformation. I am most intrigued by severed trees and their broken-openness, for it is in that state that I can see into their soul. A soul in a continuum to its next form.
Many of my pieces are done on shizen paper, which is 100% made from recycled materials.
AMO
