Abstract Paradise Print

This work explores the idea of a simulated paradise - those found in botanical gardens, zoos, biodomes, etc. Though seemingly realist, it is in fact an impossible scene: Based predominantly on abstract drawings and sketches, references from dozens of photographs and video documentation are used to create an image that speaks to the artifice of the image, but also to the experience of memory. The final painting thus presents and independent reality - one based on our own, but one that ultimately functions according to its own inherent logic.