York Fire – Dusk VI

I made a small ‘dusk’ series to emphasise the fragility of both Eastern & Western Joshua Trees, vulnerable in their restricted desert habitats to climate change, wildfires, and associated issues with poor seed dispersal + germination.

I also spent time getting the base blends of this little series just right. I wanted a luminous enough light, plus a solidity to the shadowed land…I then worked quickly enough on the reduction mono of the tree to give a contrast with the stark reality of the environment. With this final part of the print, I’ve used c.30% printing medium to c.70% acrylic, so it’s quite loose and translucent and allows some of the ‘light’ to pass through the tree.🌵

I started doing these blends a few years ago to relay the uncertainty at the end of a day/epoch. This was partly inspired by childhood memories of the ‘Rite of Springs’ from the Disney epic ‘Fantasia’, the end of which describes the extinction of the dinosaurs. A dusk-like blended backdrop was used throughout this part of the animation.

'York Fire - Dusk VI' was been selected for the 2024 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and subsequently sold.