Madeleine Bialke
Lunar Landing, 2021
Oil on canvas
55.8 x 45.7 cm. / 22 x 18 in.
$ 3,300
This large old tree is posited as something otherworldly, almost unrecognizable. I remember the first time I saw a 150 ft white pine deep in the Adirondack Mountains I almost...
This large old tree is posited as something otherworldly, almost unrecognizable. I remember
the first time I saw a 150 ft white pine deep in the Adirondack Mountains I almost couldn’t
believe it. But the east coast used to be full of them and even larger chestnut trees before a
blight disappeared them. A lone melancholic figure stands there, contemplating it perhaps.
The glow of the tree comes from an unknown source, from the emotion of the person or the
interaction between person and tree. ''Lunar Landing'' as a title positions either the tree or the
person as a mars rover of sorts, wandering unknown or unfamiliar lands in search of answers.
If the tree, this takes on an apocalyptic, environmental connotation, the tree is finding its way
in a new world of full human dominance. If the person, perhaps they are finding a new sense of
nature, or looking to nature to find a sense of self.
the first time I saw a 150 ft white pine deep in the Adirondack Mountains I almost couldn’t
believe it. But the east coast used to be full of them and even larger chestnut trees before a
blight disappeared them. A lone melancholic figure stands there, contemplating it perhaps.
The glow of the tree comes from an unknown source, from the emotion of the person or the
interaction between person and tree. ''Lunar Landing'' as a title positions either the tree or the
person as a mars rover of sorts, wandering unknown or unfamiliar lands in search of answers.
If the tree, this takes on an apocalyptic, environmental connotation, the tree is finding its way
in a new world of full human dominance. If the person, perhaps they are finding a new sense of
nature, or looking to nature to find a sense of self.