Landscape Obscured by Documents

Landscape Obscured by Documents show July 28 - September 9, 1992 Multnomah Art Center Oil paintings, works on paper, and ceramic tiles with a focus on the Bull Run Watershed and Oregon's forestlands. Please click thumbnail for larger view.
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Alternative F: The Wise Use Option Oil on paper. A satirical look at the possible outcome of the type of management advocated by anti- environmental groups (who call themselves the Wise Use Movement). 22" x 30" 1992.
The Bull Run Management Unit from the Southwest Oil on canvas. 38" x 61" 1992. A view of the Bull Run Watershed, the watersource for over 700,000 people in the Portland metropolitan area, as it appeared in the drought spring of 1992, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Forest Reserve that originally made up the watershed. Various historical documents are visible (and readable) within this work.
Before and After the 1977 Burns Decision Oil and carbon transfer on paper. 22" x 30" 1992. Format: horizontal. A landmark decision against the US Forest Service, brought by Joseph Miller Jr., which temporarily halted logging within the Bull Run Watershed. A new federal law was written regarding Bull Run Management and the logging resumed, purportedly in a fashion designed to protect water quality. Also includes a Global Warming Graph from 1850 to 1986. (Source: Summary and Conclusions of a workshop. Board of Atmospheric sciences and climate Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources National Research Council.)
The Days Have Ended When. . . . Oil on canvas. 20" x 24" 1992. Quotations from The Judge Dwyer Decision.
Landscape Obscured by Documents Oil paint and carbon transfer on Rives paper. 30" x 44" 1992. Watershed area and documents directly related to the Bull Run Watershed.
Space Shuttle Over Mt Hood: Landsat Data Oil, pencil, and carbon transfer on paper. 22" x 30" 1992. Includes: a 1990 Portland Oregonian front page announcing the listing of the northern spotted owl as an endangered species; a New York Times article headlined "Citing Space Photos Scientist Says Forests In The Northwest Are In Danger"; a view of the cover of Thoreau's Walden imprinted with the nameplate of the Mazamas, a Portland hiking and climbing club; an early 20th century Columbia River canned salmon label. Also, a view of the very first house in Portland, in 1844.
A Portrait of Dr. Joseph Miller Jr. Oil and carbon transfer on paper. 22" x 30" 1992. Homage to a man who has been fighting the degradation of the Bull Run and Little Sandy Watersheds for over 20 years. Includes: the text of the 1992 Bull Run Resolution (written with input from local environmentalists); a view of an early Bull Run Division boundary marker; a 1985 Portland Oregonian article on Dr. Joe Miller, and a small portion of an 1894 map of the Bull Run Forest Reserve.
A Portrait of Dr. Joseph Miller Jr. (II) Oil and carbon transfer on paper. 22" x 30" 1992. Homage to the man who has been fighting the degradation of the Bull Run and Little Sandy Watersheds for over 20 years. Includes: a view of the 1892 presidential proclamation by Benjamin Harrison which established the Forest Reserve which later became Portlands Bull Run watershed; a view of the 1895 Bull Run Forest Reserve map; a view of an early (c.1920's) Bull Run Division boundary marker; a page from the 1977 Judge Burns Decision (which halted commercial logging within Portland's watershed for one year, until a new law was rushed through the US Congress; a 1977 Oregonian headline regarding Congressman Bob Duncan's successful efforts to control debate; a 1985 Portland Oregonian article on Dr. Joe Miller; a Forest Service graph showing logging within the watershed from 1985 to 1990; and a June 17, 1992 article summarizing 100 years of Bull Run history on the 100th anniversary of the watershed.

In the Present Atmosphere Oil and carbon transfer on paper. 22" x 30" 1992. Format: vertical. Includes a letter from members of the U.S. Congress requesting a study of global warming by the National Academy of Sciences. This work also depicts a significant page from Current Issues in Atmospheric Change. Summary and conclusions of a workshop. Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources National Research Council. (National Academy Press 1987). There is also a page from the newsletter of a "wise use" group urging their supporters to "Balance the Earth Summit in Rio, Come To The Wise Use Summit in Reno."
Inscriptions in Paradise Oil and carbon transfer on paper. 22" x 30" 1992. Format: horizontal. Book pages used by permission from the publisher. Quotations regarding the now denuded forests in the middle east that were once the forest reserves of the Roman emperor Hadrian.This work also includes a readable depiction of page 84 from "Global Warming Trends" by Jones and Wiglet in Scientific American, August 1990.
Landscape Obscured By Documents I 23" X 30" 1992. Oil paint and carbon transfer on Arches paper.
Wise Use vs. Wisdom-Who Tells the Truth? Oil and carbon transfer on paper. 22" x 30" 1992. Format: horizontal. Includes pages from the newsletter of a "wise use" group decrying "Global Nonsense," and a page from Flowers and Garden (Sept 1991) wherein Dixie Lee Ray states that "no overall warming trend is underway."