Installation

lost trees

2022

Wood, glass, light, painted angiograms

17 × 17 × 72 inches

Exhibition

lost trees — Balboa Park, San Diego, 2022.

lost trees — Liberty Station, San Diego, 2022.

lost trees — The Studio Door, San Diego, 2022.

lost trees, in Ode to the Lake Sacalaia — Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA, July–August 2023.

lost trees — level of service not required (LOS/NR), La Jolla, CA, 2024.

Presented alongside one, two, three, and four — Youth Enviro-Art Show, 1st Edition (Tijuana Sewage Crisis), in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics and San Diego Pediatricians for Clean Air.

Artist's Statement

I wonder if our universe is part of an even bigger one, and all around us are just the atoms and cells of another larger dimension… At times it seems that trees are like hairs on the skin of the earth, with deep roots reaching towards my heart, and my eyes, at last, are blurred by the lost longed and branched desires…

Have you ever wondered if the water of a tree is pulled from the earth so that the clouds would friend and tender its leaves? And have you noticed how the trees are glowing when softly touched, their leaves dissolving?… Spending a lifetime looking for those lost and feeble touches.

Works in the Series

2022 · painted angiograms