Description
Each work of this series has a longer subtitle encapsulating a memory or the artist’s life as it relates to an abiding love of the natural world; a love ingrained in the artist as a child and nurtured as an adult.
This work references a distinctly “piercing” memory. While on a ladder working outside on a home repair at the family farm, I noticed the requisite black labrador suddenly start jumping and snapping at the air. I was understandably confused, and as the stabbing pings started in my back, I quickly understood and joined in the flailing. There were repurposed railroad ties by the house, which can house yellowjacket hives, and I had apparently placed the ladder a bit too close to one. The stings have faded to humorous memory, but less learned. Nature bites back.
