A large, layered oil painting contemplating the summer smoke that has become an increasingly familiar part of life in the West. The Air We Breathe explores the tension between beauty and destruction—the strange, luminous colors that emerge through smoke and haze alongside the uncertainty of a changing climate.
Through layers of vibrant color, shifting light, and atmospheric depth, the painting is an attempt to make meaning of the changing world around us, while allowing space for grief, uncertainty, and wonder. It is ultimately a study of finding beauty in a landscape transformed, and in the fragile moments of light that remain.
A large, layered oil painting contemplating the summer smoke that has become an increasingly familiar part of life in the West. The Air We Breathe explores the tension between beauty and destruction—the strange, luminous colors that emerge through smoke and haze alongside the uncertainty of a changing climate.
Through layers of vibrant color, shifting light, and atmospheric depth, the painting is an attempt to make meaning of the changing world around us, while allowing space for grief, uncertainty, and wonder. It is ultimately a study of finding beauty in a landscape transformed, and in the fragile moments of light that remain.
