UNTER DEN LINDEN
About Unter den Linden
Unter den Linden is a collection of abstract still life pieces I did living for a short time on Linden Avenue in the Greenlake neighborhood of Seattle. The title of the series is a nostalgic nod to the famous Berlin district known as "Unter den Linden" - "under the Linden trees". I feel a solidarity with the Berliners as I walk under the Linden trees of the adjoining neighbrhoods of Greenlake and Phinney Ridge in Seattle.
Soaking up a wall at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt of Emil Nolde's flower series in the spring of 2014, I experienced a flashback to when I was a teenager doing similar impressionist sytle drawings of flowers using chalk pastelles. The re-entry through Nolde's work inspired and encouraged me to begin my own series - this time using felt pen evolving it to a more abstract contempoary definition of forms in combination with symbolilic objects.
The collection pays tribute to the people who lovingly plant the wide and glorious array of flowers and trees and color into the Seattle landscape. As I walked the neighborhood I couldn't help but notice there was also this indomnitable random planting of wild flowers by nature and the unexpected beauty to be found everywhere when you choose to look. Conscious that it conjures its own experience in me, each piece is also laced with my own personal impressionistic experience of the still life which will often ignite a wide landscape and symbology around it, as much as the title of the collection has done as well. "Nature" through my eyes unites us all.
I also invite you to become part of the unfolding consciousness experience and email me about your insights/thoughts/ideas about what this artwork collection invokes for you.
original 12"x 9"
felt inkpen on 60lb 98GSM acid free paper
June | 2020
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original 12"x 9"
felt inkpen on 60lb 98GSM acid free paper
June | 2020
A LIMITED EDITION FINE ART PRINT
OF THIS ARTWORK IS AVAILABLE FOR
ORDER Now
original 9"x 12"
felt inkpen on 60lb 98GSM acid free paper
June | 2020
A LIMITED EDITION FINE ART PRINT
OF THIS ARTWORK IS AVAILABLE FOR
ORDER Now
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I invite you to become part of the unfolding consciousness experience and email me about your insights/thoughts/ideas about what this artwork invokes for you.