Gallery Artists

Tim McDonald

Self-nature that is no nature.
Hakuin Ekaku

An open space to move in, with the whole body, the whole mind.
Gary Snyder

The land and its processes are the foundation of my art practice. It is, for me, not scenic or pastoral, but a dynamic network of memory, myth, magic, and language—living speech—a syntax of water, stone, seed, sprout, decay, migration…

This terrain is not a reflection of mind, but the ground for a reciprocal—sometimes ritual—act of perpetual creation. I am exploring a visual language that is born from an awareness that perception is a natural system; one in which the compost of observed, dreamed, and remembered forms and experiences manifest in images of a world at once real and imagined.

An ecology of mind. Imagination as ecosystem.

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Works below are from the "No Nature" Series and are graphite on paper, 22x30 inches, except the long drawing at the bottom, "transitive inflection," graphite on polypropylene, which is 20x350 inches (fourteen 20x25 inch sheets).