Nature colliding with urbanization
For the past 40 years, I have painted abstractions of what I see and feel in nature, and I still do that. Having traveled around the world I have also experienced life in many cities, and about 10 years ago I started to abstract the urban landscapes I have visited.
The complexity of both environments are eerily similar, and millions of miles apart. They both live, breathe, evolve, and change constantly, and in this ever-changing world, I find solace in my interpretation of their conflict.
I am completely intrigued by nature and in parallel, I am always surprised at what I see in cities, especially very large cities where the city itself has become a natural world to the citizens living in them.
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An extraordinary part the collision between urbanization and nature, is the conflict it creates, visibly and invisibly. The collision between nature and urbanization can often end in a painful and violent affair, from pandemics to loss of species, the struggles are real and the costs can be permanent.
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I’m a child of ’60s raised in the ’70s in Europe where pollution was a daily occurrence, where recycling was nonexistent, trash was everywhere, industry was still dumping chemicals in lakes, rivers, and seas without restrictions, and this happened everywhere not just in Europe.
50 years later, it has improved in some places and not so much in others.
I grew up with this conflict, I remember it, I can feel this conflict, and I paint it. It’s not always pretty or easy to look at but It’s what I really see and how it makes me feel.
It’s hard to paint sometimes, and hard to abstract what is continuously changing, but this is the challenge and the drivers for these paintings.