Linda Hodges gallery presents Vancouver British Columbia artist
Margaretha Bootsma in a solo exhibition of new mixed media paintings titled
Marking Time.
Bootsma brilliantly combines photography and metal, as well as the
tactile physics of paint, to make connections to the organic activity of
earth phenomena. In Marking Time, the artist chooses as her subject trees
and mountains, not so much for their sentimental or romantic connection to
the landscape, but to represent the cycle of regeneration, the passage of
time, and geologic forces. Trees, especially deciduous trees, represent the
cycle of constant renewal and regeneration: the life principle. Mountains
symbolize cosmic forces and passages from one plane to another. The
inclusion of photographs are meant to challenge our perceptions of what we
see, and a circular motif in some of the work evokes the rippling of water
from a dropped stone and symbolizes the constant moving and shifting of
time. The pictorial and architectural arrangements of these elements in the
paintings are intended to evoke a notion of conscious and unconscious
experience of place.
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