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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