The painting below is the most recent in a series of works that takes architectural elements from buildings in a specific city and then deconstructs and superimposes them. The end result hopefully is that you could recognize the city. These two paintings from the series are also making use of Thomas Cole's Course of Empire idea. I've taken the elements and combined them with natural elements to suggest the collapse of civilization. The top painting is Tikal, Guatemala. The Classic Maya city is submerged in the jungle that currently surrounds it. The bottom painting is Rome under water. I'm liking the creation of these images. It is labor intensive, but I think they are pretty visually intriguing.
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