This recent work is a visual combination of botanical life and improvised imagery that reference current human and natural events. These paintings may be referred to as “Quasi-Botanical” because they turn toward a traditionally surrealist or lyrical interpretation of the environment using botanical forms metaphorically. Leaves, trees, rhizomes and microorganisms interweave into a dual dimensioned landscape where they perform on a psychic plane somewhere between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds…a semi-aquatic and quasi-botanic surrealist stage if you will. Directly, sprouting leaves are metaphors for rejuvenation, hope, and redemption in our present intersection with Nature. Pollock made the insightful remark that “…man is nature”, and yet at times we seem to be the invasive species impressing significant stresses into the ecosystem. I have compositionally worked leaves and interconnected sub-structures toward a process of absorption, healing and renewal. I want my work to be life affirmative, and a pictorial gesture toward future healing and understanding.

Charles Geiger, February 2012

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