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| These paintings are about how time and context can change everything. They explore the grand narrative of our country's settlement, and the effect of that story on our modern world view. The images of logging in the paintings are based on photographs by Darius Kinsey, who took pictures of logging operations all over the Pacific Northwest about 100 years ago. That period was one of extreme transition - when forests became cities and trees became industrial products. The process of settlement and resource extraction that is so visible in the Northwest today is merely the continuation of a pattern that began at Jamestown 400 years ago, our need for natural resources fueling the march towards our 'Manifest Destiny.' We see Kinsey's images - and the history of US settlement - in a very different light today, but the boom and bust (drill it / mine it / log it till it's gone, then move on) mentality still de- fines modern day capitalism, our approach to the environ- ment, and the way we use nat- ural resources. ~Sarah Kavage |
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