Scott Greene, Talking Tree

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• Lot Description
  Scott Greene
  Talking Tree, 2014
  etching/reductive linocut
  image: 15.5 x 12 in. paper: 21 x 18 in.
  ed. of 10.
  Courtesy the artist and Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe.
  
  Painting is a process of suspending disbelief. It is a relatively safe and humorous trip off a precipice, saved in the nick of time before the gravity of reality pulls you into despair. It’s similar to the old Roadrunner cartoons where Wile E. Coyote hangs in mid-air after chasing his prey off a cliff, hoping to avoid tragedy by not looking down.
  
  I satirize relationships between politics, history, nature, and beauty. This is my way of making sense of an increasingly nonsensical life experience. I poke fun at my own expense. Like everything else, however, satire has reached an inflection point. Its new trajectory is neutralized by this "theatre of the absurd" epoch we have wandered into.
  
  Searching through history for what remains relevant to the present continues to occupy my creative thoughts. Despite a lethal pandemic, global catastrophes due to climate change, and deep social divides along racial, religious, and political fault-lines, I try to make the best of what’s around. A "make-do" sensibility continues to inform my choices of subjects and iconography and allows wiggle room for some humor in my titles.
  
  Were the peasants who cast away all concerns in order to drunkenly dance and celebrate life during the Black Plague of 1348 so very different from the deniers of science today? Were there not catastrophic events in nature that turned the sun blood red, as depicted in the paintings of Edvard Munch? Was there no Tower of Babel, where the human race could speak the same language yet not understand one another? Who knows. But I’m hoping to make a comedy about it.

  Dimension

  Height: 21.00 in

  Width: 18.00 in
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