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Landscape Paintings

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In crafting these luminous landscapes, I speak to a softness and resilience that I see in the land that inspires me. With my layered paintings, I explore the power structures of the world that collectively label the natural environment as feminine, as a means to demean it. Tradition has created binaries which connect man/woman and culture/nature respectively. It is a relationship which relies on the passivity of nature to be manipulated and consumed by the male gaze. I insert my work in this narrative and challenge the historically male tradition of landscape painting. Instead of depicting the beauty of the environment with exaggeration and as the artists who I studied have, I form my landscapes by layering tones and creating colorful impressions of agency. In doing so, I acknowledge the masculine legacy of landscapes while modifying the treatment of the subject to a modern ecofeminist lens that addresses the urgency of the climate crisis. My creative practice exists as an act of resistance in the face of oppressive societal conditions.