This is Meredith Nemirov and my piece, Rivers Feed the Trees #463 is part of an ongoing series that I started in November 2020.
The summer of 2020 was full of concern for not only Covid virus but also the many wildfires in Colorado and throughout the western United States.
The concern carried over into the winter as we thought of how much, or how little, snow we were getting and this created a figurative conflagration
in my studio which resulted in these works on paper. As I painted rivers and water into all the topography of the ditches, gullies, arroyos, etc. my
intention was for the visual images to be akin to a Native American Rain Dance, a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain.
In this case, winter and spring snowfall resulting in an abundant run-off to nourish the earth for the coming summer.