Burned at the Core

Photo of Suze Woolf painting of burned tree

Painting Details
Varnished watercolor on torn paper
52" x 30"
 
From Greider Lakes in Washington State's Central Cascades. Older than the second or third growth forest around them, these burned cedars were some of the largest I've ever seen.

As the climate warms, forest fires are becoming more frequent and catastrophic in the western United States. My deep anxiety with the impacts of climate change on wilderness are emerging in this series. Burned-over areas of forest are riveting. Unfamiliar tree forms are newly exposed. Formerly hidden terrain features become visible. Normal greens, blues and browns are transformed. All the worst fires of the last fifty years have occured in the last five years.

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