Dean McCrillis
The central focus of my work is human interaction with wild places. I often think of an ecological term called an Ecotone: a transition area between two biological communities, where these two communities meet and integrate. The Western Mountains of Maine, where I grew up, are full of spots like this. There, zones of domesticated space and wilderness often overlap. I think of painting as an intersecting space like this. These paintings are a bridge between natural history and personal history and, at their core, are compelled by both memory and discovery. It is a confluence of sorts.
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