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 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, these artworks challenge the use of exploitive, extractive, and destructive practices when humans imagine themselves separate or superior to 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 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, these artworks challenge the use of exploitive, extractive, and destructive practices when humans imagine themselves separate or superior to 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.
