Forest Drawings: HOMONYMS

Continuing my plein air Forest Drawing practice, these drawings are images, digitally drawn in the woods, employing a ‘chromatic alphabet’. Four colors are used in each drawing and each chromatic combination represents a four-lettered word (example: BEAR = B/Blue, E/Emerald, A/Aqua, R/Red). The selected four-lettered words are homonyms (words with multiple meanings) to express an openness in reading or interpreting the images.

While the forest uses unique ‘languages’ to communicate amongst its living things, the human vocabulary overlay utilized in these drawings refers to both our superimpositions onto nature and the probable impossibility of conversing with nature on its own terms.

Each digital drawing is printed using the giclee process utilizing archival paper and archival ink. Each drawing/print is unique.