Jeane Kat McGrail

The Reconstruction and Restoration Spheres Projects predict catastrophic consequences during this Anthropocene Epoch resulting in drastic changes in our planet's climate, ecosystems, and mass extinctions. I observe the momentum as a continuum of the first grand explosive energy—expanding, rotating, intersecting. The Projects manifest the beginnings of an explosive time and future while embracing the dream vision of an embellished and renewed outcome. The desolate, gray aftermath of raging fires, extreme weather, and catastrophic pandemic events on earth are not envisioned but demonstrate the tumultuous splendor of flowers, insects, birds, and all existence—blended and redistributed. 
Reconstruction and Restoration Spheres proliferate a vision of events much like the moment of cosmic inflation, as space expands on a flat plane, where spheres expand and accelerate energy, rotating, spiking three-dimensional surfaces. Hopeful a portal will open, I observe the momentum as remnants of the first grand explosive energy—expanding, rotating, intersecting.

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Orange Streak

Orange Streak takes place by the moorings of North Beach in Chicago, where the ice shelves of Lake Michigan forge new corridors over the frozen terrain. Brought out by the lurking darkness beneath and glistening footprints on the pristine white ridges, the scene takes on the appearance of a panoramic documentation. However, in a surreal sense, this is an environment montaged from many image captures. It becomes a fantasy land for play, for meditation, and for environmental discernment, harboring frolicking dogs, saints beneath five layers, and birds wasting with hunger.
The River Project: Origins, Movement, Confluence
Arctic Vortex Series: Orange Streak
25in x 38in Unframed ©2014
Photo Construction, Archival Piezo on Paper
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