Wilderness...Preservation of the World (work in progress)

In the beginning there was water...alot of it!

Lake SuperiorPresque Isle River,Manito Falls and more...I begin the mixed media painting with BIGNESS---a canvas sketch of the largest Great Lake, Superior.

The Porcupine Mountain Range spanning from right to left. And the largest birch tree I had ever seen...

The WILDERNESS responses are placed on the birch trunk in a fashion of a poem and the actual words that

folks wrote are placed on the forest floor.This piece is

exciting to create as I begin with HOME and am now

preparing to place fauna and flora. The theme for the

piece is a quote from Henry David Thoreau:

"In WILDERNESS is the preservation of the world"