MELISSA MARKLEY, BFA

This painting it the first of an ongoing series currently in process at Modern Druid. It is a celebration of a temporal romance through the seasons representing the universal life and death cycle, beginning with Spring.

Momento Mori is a latin phrase meaning: remember that you have to die.  It is about embracing our death everyday so that we may live fully and with a sense of peace.  

Through the seasons, we are reminded of the inevitability of change and our undeniable connection to it.  This series is timely after a year filled with loss and forced reconcilliation with chaos and entropy. Our connection to the universe can never be diminished.

Dimensions: 27 1/2”W X 48”L framed, painted on prepared wooden panels with acrylic paint.  

The next three paintings in this series will roll out in conjunction with each season, and will be auctioned in early 2022.

This collection of nine began with a Red-Osier Dogwood bush.  The artist manipulated the image in digital format.  

The results draw parallels to fractal growth patterns found in living things, particularly in flowers, trees, clouds and coastlines.  

Within the arrangements of these self-similar objects, more recognizable shapes emerge: a deer, a face, a door, a stained glass window.  

In the same way Momento Mori highlights our very human connection to nature’s life cycle, Cathedral of Organic Symmetry draws on the parallels of human theology, epistemology and nature’s grand design.  

Set of nine 12” X 12” wood cut from the same panel.  Digital transfer, acrylic and matte medium.  

$120 per piece

$900 for all 9

(The artist’s intention is to sell each of the nine pieces individually)