SOPHIA
FRESE
 

This diptych uses cool but vibrant tones to create a language of its own, between surrealism and abstraction, powerfully intersecting color and shapes. The works are a response to the time I spent in Tanzania's Ruaha National Park, a territory the size of Switzerland with an incredibly rich ecosystem. If you know to be quiet, like everyone else in the Savannah, and you follow the rangers' experienced guidance you can track the great and small creatures roaming the land. Kudu, antilope herds, zebras and giraffes meeting in the dried river bed, elephant families gathering by the great Baobab trees, lone bulls digging for a cool drink, birds, and prides of lions, resting and stalking their prey in the heat of the day. All cross paths at the watering hole at night, especially as the season gets drier. The diptych envisions such a crossing of paths with its abstracted references to the fauna and flora of Ruaha.

Crossing Paths - Diptych
Oil, Acrylics and Pigment on Canvas
Each is 90x130