Deindustrialization - Surreal Landscape Painting cat Dawn comes like a mighty

Dawn comes like a mighty fire through the trees

but dark doesn't mean no one is up and about

Breaking through to higher realms--how do you know when you are really ascending and when you are just kidding yourself

seething surface and how it throws out vast ribbons of itself

From there they proceed upwards

Deindustrialization - Surreal Landscape Painting cat Dawn comes like a mightyWhen things break down, other things step in. That's what this painting is about. For me, having seen a lot of abandoned industrial sites, one of the things that seems important powerful, in a quiet way is how nature reclaims these areas, whether they are old factories or burial sites of toxic wastes. The plants move in and take over, and by extension, I think the animals and people move in and begin the process of healing. This is something that