Tiger Fire

What might be a forest fire blazes in the distant background. Is she fleeing a flaming woodland or in fiery pursuit of her prey? Are those cinders, or fireflies, or otherworldly orbs guiding her to safety? This statement piece confronts us with the magical worlds that are altered when natural environments are destroyed. “What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?” Painted to be life size, a large adult female tiger flies out from the deep foliage, her attention locked on a point just out of our view. Yellow fireflies encompass the forest floor, and what might be a fire blazes in the distant background over the hill. Is this painting a tiger in a fiery pursuit of her prey? Or is this a tiger fleeing a woodland that’s going up in smoke? I leave it in the eye of the beholder, for the interpretation of the scene in fact tells a lot about the person. For me personally, “Tiger Fire” is about strength, purpose, and risk. Artistically speaking it’s like an act of visual prayer