Night-in-Gale (Edition 5/40)
Artist
Darren Waterston
MediumColor etching on paper
Dimensions28 x 22 1/2 in. (71.1 x 57.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
This print is a synthesis of information about the natural world. Much of the time, I use images taken from the world that surrounds me. Rather than paint them in a strictly realistic manner, I interpret them in ways that heighten their symbolic meaning. Moths, butterflies, birds, and other animals are painted in a naturalistic style, often in near silhouette fashion. A dreamlike state is enhanced by the appearance of a great variety of biomorphic and anthropomorphic shapes that relate ambiguously to both the horizon line and the sense of depth in the print. –Artist statement