La Selva (the Jungle).......Los Arboles (the Trees)

Here is a collage of the most recent painting(s) I have finished, The name is La Selva, the Jungle.......Los Arboles, the Trees. It is a group of 9 paintings that are intended to be hung together, the two large ones are 16x20 and the small ones are 14x11. I have done considerable thinking about these images,

La Selva, the Jungle.......Los Arboles, the Trees

Trees.....

Long Life....
Peace....
Tranquility...
Shelter....
Comforting....
Community....

Fire.....

Heat.....
Angst....
Burning......
Annihilation...
Transformation....
Isolation...
Violence.....

In this series I am exploring the concept of Yin and Yang. Opposites that are part of one thing, Night and Day, In and Out, Cool and Hot, Off and On, Life and Death. Opposites that are intimately intertwined and when separated they lose more than half of their meaning. The tension or gravity of one clings to the other, like a lover, separate but so very close. The balance of forces, perhaps tipped, change is inevitable and every beginning has an end.