Landscape painted on a wooden log by Alison Moritsugu

This artistic or creative piece plays with something quite essential such as using one of the logs cut from a dry tree to convey the green landscape in which that same tree could be part of the green thicket that is painted.

One of the qualities of working on the side of a wooden log is how it opens, giving way to those indentations that allows you to create an effect quite strange and particular as if the opening of the tree itself participated in its design. A landscape painted by the artist Alison Moritsugu and that takes us to other spaces where we can discover other canvases where we can express ourselves if we have the skill of painting.

With a slightly dark sense to use one of those fallen trees to reproduce the beauty of a landscape where those trees are the real protagonists of that greenery and that nature in its own grandeur, that canvas used as wood is a creative piece to highlight.

That earthly paradise with that pictorial style remembering the era of romanticism where the flora took on more striking and more artificial shades of green, but looking for that meaning to something beyond our reach when the real thing is that we have it in front of our own eyes.

The artist herself: «In my paintings on logs, I examine the landscapes painted in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries. Those landscapes, by artists like Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, were deeply rooted in the political constructions of their time, they showed Earth as a possible Eden. I take these images out of their familiar context, and paint them directly on wooden logs with the bark intact. The feeling of nostalgia or celebration is surrounded by the evidence of destruction.»

You have his site and a exhibition showing your work very soon in New York.

In wood we have the work in the carving of Peter demetz.