Stuck on Highway 80, Neosublime 16
2022, oil on canvas, 44 x 74 inches
This is an aerial view of tidal flooding on Highway 80, the only road to Tybee Island. In 1950 minor flooding occurred every few years. In 2012 it flooded every three months. In 2016 Hurricane Matthew broke the previous sea level record by one and a half feet. Irma, the next hurricane was almost as high. Sea levels are predicted to be even 1-6 feet higher in 2100. Savannah was founded on a bluff, where it would be protected from flooding and storm surges. Although most of the historic downtown will withstand a 6-foot rise, other parts of the city will not.
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Never Used to be This High, Neosublime 18
2022, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
What will Tybee Island look like in 2040? Possibly ocean waves will be landing on the walkway instead of the beach. A NOAA tide gauge at nearby Fort Pulaski has measured over 10 inches of sea level rise since 1935. Now flooding is so frequent that people on Tybee Island are often prevented from leaving the island, especially during king tides. Some people are selling their homes worried that the frequently flooding and destruction will eventually lower the value of their properties.
$900 + shipping.
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No End in Sight, Neosublime 13
2021, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches.
A serene landscape is subverted by a handwritten text overlay, rather than type commonly found in social media, signifying technology being in tension with traditional fine arts. Image shows the seas continuing to rise for centuries to come.
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Going, gone, Neosublime 20
2022, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
Global warming has increased the frequency of catastrophic storms worldwide. The image in this painting is double flipped, disorienting the viewer. Interestingly, the artist was literally caught in a tornado during the painting of this artwork.
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Week of Sunrises, Neosublime 9a
2021, acrylic on canvas, 41 x 72 inches.
A movie is projected onto this painting with the same sunrise beach scene each day for one week. Every day is a little different, different people, different animals, different weather but it still looks the same overall. The mundane morning routine of the beach takes place beneath a bright colorful sunrise caused by increasing pollution.
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Tybee Sunset, Neosublime 12b
2021, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.
Brilliant sunsets are caused by increasing carbon and particulate emissions in the air. The artist’s statement is stenciled on the painting.
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What's Happening?
2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches.
While jumping from rock to rock the sisters stop to check a tidal pool and wonder why the water is so warm but may not realize the temperature of the oceans are dangerously rising as well.
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Neosublime 19 Wave Goodbye
2022, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
A monstrously large wave strikes the rocky shore with megatons of energy. Humans are enjoying a moment of picture taking unaware of their impending demise. A metaphoric representation of the insidious nature of global warming and sea level rise. The subliminal fear is that if the mean global temperature were to return to the normal of mid-twentieth century, it would still take centuries for the sea level to stop rising.
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Going Gone
2022, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches
Three smoke stacks release noxious fumes into the atmosphere which cover floating flowers symbolic of nature ascending into heaven. The the billowing smoke has the appearance of a nuclear bomb signifying its deadly threat.
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Tybee Sunrise, Neosublime 12a
2021, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.
Sunrises and sunsets have become more brilliantly red because of suspended particulate matter from global warming and air pollution.
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Effluent, Neosublime 17
2022, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
This painting depicts how rising sea levels infiltrate sea marshes as well as septic systems and then return the toxic waste back to the sea. It speaks of the complexity of many systems and components involved in sea level rise and global warming. By the way, effluent is defined as liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea.
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Sea Level Rise Power, Neosublime 11
2021, oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches.
In the last 60 years coastal flooding has more than quadrupled on the East Coast. Exceptionally large waves are a reminder of the seismic power of nature and the impending flooding from sea level rise due to global warming, melting icebergs and sinking land.
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Progress is Our Most Important Product, Neosublime 15
2022, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 inches, overlaying painting
This artwork is made of two paintings. One is a beautiful, colorful portrait of a pine forest. While being displayed it is torn from the wall, by actors posing as viewers, to reveal a mural painting underneath. The mural shows the same forest which has been transformed into a ghost forest. A big box store in the distance shows that product is more important than environment.
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People Everywhere, Neosublime 1
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
No matter how far you travel into the wild there is still evidence of humans. It is difficult to take a photo or paint a painting without someone coming into your field of vision. Overcrowding and global warming go hand in hand.
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Monster Beneath, Neosublime 2
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
Overfishing and the rise in water temperature and removed land locked salmon from Sebago Lake in Maine. This crystal-clear lake is threatened by and invisible monster that resides within.
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Wind Power, Neosublime 3
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
A mooring buoy looks out across the water, in the very far distance are turbine windmills ghosts of the failed 2012 Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound.
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Nod to Kitac, Neosublime 5
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
Collage of sunrises, sunsets, globalization, and sea level rise due to global warming. This painting is informed by If Not, Not, by artist R.B. Kitaj showing a paradise corrupted by the horror of the Holocaust.
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Ghost Forest, Neosublime 6
2022, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.
This painting is of the trees on Skidaway Island GA dying because the rise of seawater is destroying their roots. These “ghost forests” can be seen along Route 16 between Savannah and Macon and on Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island GA.
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Weeks of News, Neosublime 9b
2021, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
This painting shows the sunrise reflected on a cottage beside a lake in Maine. The brilliant sunrise is caused by air pollution.Television news reports, often violent, are projected onto the painting. It’s difficult to escape global warming and political chaos.
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Black Head Monhegan, Sea Water Rising
2021, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches.
Eroding East Coast and rising seas.
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Endangered Georgia Wildflower, Georgia Aster
2021, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
When thinking of endangered species, people first think of animals, not plants.
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Endangered Georgia Wildflower, Georgia Rockcress,
2021, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 inches.
Beautiful wildflower emerges from fresh water ponds.
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Endangered Georgia Wildflower, Kahl’s Water Plantain
2021, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
Tiny endangered Georgia wildflower often overlooked.
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Cadillac Waiting
2021, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches.
Icebergs melt, sea levels rise.
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Trail of Tears, Neosublime 4
2020, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
This abstract painting of Lake Winfield Scott in North Georgia during the Fall. This lake was on the land of the Creek and Cherokee Nations before they were forced westward by Gen. Scott during the Trail of Tears campaign in 1838.
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Neosublime 8, Divisive
2021, acrylic on canvas, lights, solar blankets, 12 x 12 x 12 feet.
This installation addresses the way two political demonstrations of opposing views were conducted.
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Ocean's Rising
2019, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches.
Thundering waves of highest tides.
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Neosublime 7, Racial Pre-Justice
2021, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches.
A barely visible signifier hanging from one of the live oak trees in Wormsloe represents the unresolved problem that continues to divide this country.
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How Much is Enough?
2019, print of original, 36 x 48 inches.
Globalization is the process through which countries in the world become increasingly connected through developments in technology, trade, and cultural exchange. The reach of its web in the world is mind bending and consistent with the contemporary sublime.
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