Jennifer Day

Smoke on the Water

Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash

oil on aluminum

14″ x 14″

2021

I am not out looking for the destruction of nature. This is in me already in the same way Robert Adams comes upon the forest and finds a terrible and perplexing beauty. I explore the relationship between water and air and depict it in the application of black paint on a white surface. In this way, I feel Adams’ sensibility, not being allowed the distraction of color. I can then concentrate on the somber and sad complexity of nature as it is ruffled and disturbed by forces supposedly beyond man’s control. Where does the smoke on the water come from? Has something gone wrong? And if so, who is responsible?

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