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Abstract expressionism has natural roots!

Abstract expressionism's allure brought me here a few years ago when I settled in New York City to do media based art. The lore of New York City's rich heritage in art communities was intrigueing. However recently ventured outdoors to do some gardening. After last summer 's commercial work - a change was needed and so engaged in environmental restoration and ecological education. There's a quaint connection for the period where Pollack was working for the FAP. In any case the oil paintings / oil pastels shown here are prophetic of a current floral perception - now it's become clear how important the natural world outside is.
One goal is to create and curate a sustainable outdoor urban artistic space. A garden design with the emotional elements and colors of the included paintings. Envision a passionate and colorful place that renews the cityscape around it and invites those passing to enter and reflect. Huge mosaics would surround this made from glass reclaimed from polluted beaches.

Even at the MOMA this transition from the interior world to the natural world is taking place. In fact during a recent visit a guide noted that Worhol's work had been displaced. It's interesting that Monet and Pollack have been hung where Worhol’s work was. They literally had to make room for these massive paintings by moving out the pop art master. Here are two artists influenced by nature and the ephemeral quality of it's beauty, in contrast to Pop Art’s dependence on commercialism and fabrication. Somehow this renewed interest in abstract expressionism pushes away ironic parody and then reaches out for meaning. The popular uprising of urban greening and city farming is soulish and sacred. My journey is part of a larger change in our culture.

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