Forest Drawings: impositions
Continuing my plein air Forest Drawing practice, these drawings are images, digitally drawn in the woods, with colored geometric patterns implanted into a natural, forest scene. The colored patterns are ‘translated’ words that employ a ‘chromatic alphabet’ (a=aquamarine, b=blue, c=crimson, d=dove-gray, e= emerald, etc.).
These drawings examine how our experiences of nature (or any other lived experience, for that matter) proceed through a filter of our own personal makeup. That is, our history, expectations, upbringing, moral positions, and social environment inform the perceptual background that we bring to examinations of things ‘outside’ of ourselves. They are tacit impositions. The viewer is always a part of the viewed.
