Deindustrialization - Surreal Landscape Painting tiny paintings I based this painting on

I based this painting on photos I took in a local cemetery

I also rejected the naturalist approach to the ground here

a maple and a cedar

I used some Impressionist painting techniques in this painting--textured

The pale October sun greets this cypress in its cemetery home

Deindustrialization - Surreal Landscape Painting tiny paintings I based this painting onWhen things break down, other things step in. That's what this painting is about. For me, having seen a lot of abandoned industrial sites, one of the things that seems important powerful, in a quiet way is how nature reclaims these areas, whether they are old factories or burial sites of toxic wastes. The plants move in and take over, and by extension, I think the animals and people move in and begin the process of healing. This is something that