The Hanging Gardens of Thunderbird
2022, collage and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30”

This garden is not passive. The Hanging Gardens of Thunderbird speaks to the power struggle embedded in botany—the push of life against decay, the reach of roots through resistance. The palette here is sharper, more elemental: teal blues and ochres collide with shadowed undergrowth, and collaged forms curl like tendrils with intent. Lush, yes—but alert.

This painting explores how plants fight to live. Every new shoot is a strategy, every leaf a map of survival. Even the dead matter—fallen petals, decomposed bark—is pulled back into the system. Nothing is wasted. The garden, in all its beauty, is a battlefield of persistence.

It’s a visual mythology of life recycling itself, of energy passed between generations of growth. Here, the garden doesn’t just hang—it clings, climbs, reclaims.

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