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Gwyneth Leech
Meadowlands - Mash and Covered Landfill, oil on canvas, 36" x 36", 2011
"Meadowlands - Mash and Covered Landfill" is part of a series of paintings inspired by aerial views of the salt marshes along the New Jersey Coast. I am fascinated by the organic patterns in this ecosystem interrupted by the Euclidean geometry of human activity. AA thin green horizon at eye level, these marshes have intrigued me since my childhood - from the bird-inhabited wilderness of South Jersey to the Meadowlands outside New York City with its garbage dumps and truck depots, crisscrossed by roads, bridges and railway lines. When I first saw this landscape from an aerial perspective I was shocked by its beauty and complexity, all but invisible from the ground.
In this painting, a turf-covered hill rises where a massive open garbage dump once stood in the marshlands. It is a landscape slowly greening and healing, but possibly scarred forever."
Gwyneth Leech
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