Botanical series
For Schafer, these works hold two somewhat conflicting ideas simultaneously. They are a celebration of the sheer beauty of nature including in flowers cultivated by humans, while broadly questioning the limits in the use of science and our drive to impose human ideas and desires upon the complexity, beauty, and fragility of nature.
Using botanical imagery as a sort of allegory for the natural world, with lines representing disruptive human intervention, these artworks give form to the tale of exploitive, extractive, and destructive practices when humans imagine themselves as superior and separate from the rest of the natural world.
For Schafer, these works hold two somewhat conflicting ideas simultaneously. They are a celebration of the sheer beauty of nature including in flowers cultivated by humans, while broadly questioning the limits in the use of science and our drive to impose human ideas and desires upon the complexity, beauty, and fragility of nature.
Using botanical imagery as a sort of allegory for the natural world, with lines representing disruptive human intervention, these artworks give form to the tale of exploitive, extractive, and destructive practices when humans imagine themselves as superior and separate from the rest of the natural world.
Botanical paintings on paper
Like the Botanical oil paintings, these original watercolors are a contemplation about our drive to impose human ideas and desires upon the complexity, beauty and fragility of nature.
Like the Botanical oil paintings, these original watercolors are a contemplation about our drive to impose human ideas and desires upon the complexity, beauty and fragility of nature.
