Oil on canvas tondo (round canvas). This is an original oil painting re-creating the feeling of a collage. In my newest series, “The Rise and Fall,” I explore the layering of human history and how it relates to nature. I use scraps of salvaged, painted papers and a retrospective of black and white vintage images combined into collages that I then translate into oil paintings on canvas. The torn papers suggest blocks of crumbling monuments. Birds are the protagonists of the works as they forage what is left behind by mankind. Themes touched on include conceptual play with DaDa references, alongside a serious message about mortality, the cycle of life, and the fragility of nature.