PANGAEA (2015)
These paintings are part of a series sparked by my discovery that the Pangaea supercontinent breakup some 250 million years ago was just the most recent instance of at least three successive global cycles of continental merger and separation. The ‘solid ground’ that has sustained us and our ancestors is part of an ongoing, a billion-year-old ongoing process of reconfiguration, destruction and remaking of the Earth’s land masses. Each painting points to a segment of that process, specific moments both of place and time.The four works shown represent one or another portion of the southern half of Pangaea, known as Gondwanaland. This landmass eventually separated to form Africa, South America, Antarctica and Australia.