Chris Haske, In Memoriam: The hills are shadows, and they flow, From form to form, and nothing stands, 2020, acrylic paint, beeswax, graphite and collage on board
“This piece examines memory and loss, the present and the future, survival and interconnection. Considering the present from a vantage point of the future, all that remains of the diminishing species of the world is human memory.”
“The monarch and milkweed represent the tenuous interconnected system. As the monarch butterfly’s survival is dependent on milkweed, every organism is connected to the whole. Isolated in our own homes, at this moment we are especially feeling our interconnection to the greater community of humanity. By isolating the milkweed from the monarch butterfly I am bringing attention to their dependent relationship and how tenuous that relationship is.”
— Chris Haske (Charlottesville, VA)