The Cocula Landscape Painting Series, 2014 - 2017.
I began this series in the late autumn of 2014. Funny enough, it took me about three and a half years to eventually complete it. It was always to be about the emotional geography of Cocula and the events that happened there. It's not a tragedy that Mexico has put to rest, and not one that will be forgotten easily or quickly. Still, the trees and the mountains go back quickly to their rhythms and their own sense of healing. And that never feels so much like forgetting as it feels like some verdant sense of awareness and honesty. Trees and mountains are always honest, even blunt, in the mute testimony we attribute to them, and in their sudden rush to cover things over and continue.
Perhaps they're more like people than we even imagine.
