It Has Always Been This Way, 2020, gouache on hot-pressed paper, 24 x 18 inches (slightly cropped in

It Has Always Been This Way, 2020, gouache on hot-pressed paper, 24 x 18 inches (slightly cropped in this image).

My first completed painting of the year/decade: a sparse Mojave-inspired landscape, populated with silhouettes of invasive plants and a string of sharp-edged polygons. I was thinking most prominently, though not exclusively, about the fragility of life in the face of obdurate systems that perpetuate inequality and ecological destruction.

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