Keystone Canvas Print

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Oil on primed linen, 0.75 inch stretchers, 24 inches by 24 inches.

Keystone is one of several paintings that explore the idea of Ecological Order and highly networked systems. "Tree of Life" motifs and "woven" and layered paint textures are used to address the characteristics of natural ecologies, human-created networks, and the complexities of human interaction with the natural world.

"Keystone" refers to a keystone species in a natural ecology. It was inspired by a set of papers I'd read a few years ago on the role of large mammals, and other species near the top of the food chain, on regulating and structuring entire ecologies. This idea could conceivably be generalized to other areas of ecological order, but I'm not sure how that would work.

Follow me on Twitter @NerdlyPainter See my images available for Royalty free and Rights Managed Licenses ! (easy peasy checkout) Statement: Art can illuminate even the most elusive and difficult to comprehend ideas. Scientific imagery can be as impenetrable as well as intriguing and beautiful. Analysis of many technical diagrams, presentations of data, and scientific images is a set of commonly accepted rules that are learned and internalized over years of study and publication. These rules and tightly codified visual metaphors help scientists communicate complex ideas mostly amongst themselves, but they could also become barriers to new ideas and insights. Valluzzi's images are abstracted and diverge from the typical rules and...