by Dennis Smith

Artwork Description

The Trail Along the River

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The raw image is unsettling - a natural collision of disparity between the wild beauty of open nature and the uncontained intrusion of the signature monuments of social abandonment. Along an otherwise untouched walking trail in Sacramento, there was a quarter mile-long caravan of tents, tarps, mattresses, disassembled appliances, and detritus. The odor of the hopeless living conditions, the hills of trash, and the ragged gaze of the camp's occupants was overwhelming. I could not do much to help the people whom I saw, so I tried to capture the image and convey it with vivid color to make people look at the art and then realize what it is they are actually seeing within it.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Oil

Genre: Expressionism