ART Habens
Donald Bracken
that makes the sticks become alive with kinetic energy.
I definitively love the way you recontextualize the idea of the environment we live in, as in your World Trade Center series and especially in the interesting mixed media painting Heaven and Earth. Many contemporary landscape artists, such as the photographers Edward Burtynsky or Michael Light, have some form of environmental or political message in their photographs. Do you consider that your works are political in this way, or do you seek to maintain a neutral approach?
Some of my work is just about beauty and love of life and love of nature, but left-wing politics is definitely part of me and some of my work clearly has a political side to it. For instance, I was involved with the NYC group shows for Art Against Apartheid. At other times I’ ve made certain thought connections as a result of attempting to reconcile occurrences I think are out of place— such as while setting up my studio at the World Trade Center, I brought in several
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