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The Tree of Life and Death - Limited Edition of 10 Print
United States
Printmaking, Screenprinting on Paper
Size: 22 W x 20 H x 0 D in
Ships in a Tube
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About The Artwork
‘The Tree of Life and Death’ represents our food choices and how these choices either nurture nature or destroy it. On one side of the tree is Life represented by healthy foliage, fresh fruits and vegetables, sunshine and biodiversity, denoted by the presence of a wolf. On the other side of the tree hangs the carcasses of dead animals commonly used in food production. This side of the tree represents Death and the effects of animal agriculture on the environment. This side reveals a burnt landscape in which nothing can survive, let alone prosper, a crescent moon hanging in the sky implying night. The image was printed using a gradient blend that goes from green to red. Green represents Life and Red represents violence and Death. In between, where the two meet in the middle, is a fusion of the two colors. This purplish color represents the balance between life and death, since it is the balance or combination of two opposing colors. Of course there will always be life and death, but it is our choices that can tip the balance of a healthy planet. By choosing a plant based diet, one can help sustain a healthy ecosystem. By choosing to eat animals and animal by-products, one contributes to the depletion of Nature and its resources. The viewer must decide which side he or she will be on: that of abundance or scarcity.
Details & Dimensions
Printmaking:Screenprinting on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10
Size:22 W x 20 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Karen Fiorito is an activist, artist and curator residing in Southern California. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and featured in major publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, Art Forum and ArtNews and featured in such books as American Women Artists in Wartime, Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today and The Design of Dissent. Fiorito has received grants from Change, Inc., the Puffin Foundation, the Pollination Project, A Well Fed World and LUSH Cosmetics for her public art projects, including the billboard campaign ‘Got Drought?’ which toured from 2015 - 2021. She has curated of many art exhibitions, including Evolution/Revolution: The Interconnectedness of All Beings (2011), Indivisible: United We Stand, Divided We Fall (2020) and The Absent Referent (2022). Her prints are in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the U.S. Forest Service, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Self Help Graphics. She holds a M.F.A. from Arizona State University and a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is the President of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society (LAPS). She is also a member of the California Society of Printmakers (CSP), the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) and a Board member at The Artists Gallery (TAG).
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