Painting 2010-2013
Project: Vanishing California
Artist Statement
Painting California’s endangered and threatened plants, to look closely at habitat loss, restructured my mind with something akin to peace—peace and balance.
So my project began in anxiety and mourning morphed to a practice of obeservation of nature. I visit endangered plants. I noticed how photographs of rare things migrate across websites like icons. The digital images themselves are made of light. Pixilations become metaphors for fragility, disintegration, disappearance. And maybe what some people call the sublime, some thought of terror of loss, and the beautiful.
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- Leaving Eden, Casien on Pigment Print on Paper, 2011
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- Leaving Eden #12, casien on photo, 11×14″, 2012
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- Semaphore Grass
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- Endangered Showy Clover, 36×36″, oil on linen, 2012
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- Endangered Showy Clover, oil on linen 36×36″, 2015
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- Mendocino Gentian ___________________________________________________
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- Tiburon Mariposa Lily
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- Tidestrom Lupine
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- Tidestrom Lupine #2
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- Rare Buckwheat GT WIlderness #3
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- Endangered Fountain Thistle Two
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- Endangered Buckwheat, Oil on Linen, 2012
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- Endangered Cushenbury Buckwheat, Oil on Linen, 2012
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- Endangered Spurge, Oil on Linen, 38×44″, 2012
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- Trimble, Endangered Fountain Thistle
Patti Trimble 