EXHIBITION + PRESENTATION

Nature is a sacred text and for us the original text. The cycles of the seasons offer deep wisdom and we honor the earth as our original sacred space. We live in what we might call an age of forgetting. We have forgotten who we are in relation to everything else: the creatures, the plants, the mountains, the forests, the oceans, one another, and even ourselves.

In this series of paintings we explore boundary as the edge or margin where things connect and find new beginnings. While our paintings are a study of edges, boundaries, and contrasts coming together, our continuing narrative inspiration is about bearing tension. The boundaries and edges are not divisions but the places that hold tension and allow something new to rise from the struggle. For us, tension is a place where we sense the breath of Spirit moving and creating within and through each of us. As our paintings progressed, we realized that part of what we were painting was the aftermath of the forest fire we experienced in 2015.The edges of the Wolverine fire contained immense destructive power, but also set the table for the re-birthing of the forest and the beauty that followed. Living on this wilderness boundary, and in that tension, we have born witness to the earth’s resurrection. – Chuck Hoffman + Peg Carlson-Hoffman

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