Coal is So 19th Century
by Nancy Kane Chapman
Title
Coal is So 19th Century
Artist
Nancy Kane Chapman
Medium
Painting - Acrylic/photography
Description
What we have done to the mountains to extract these giant piles of coal is clearly visible in my imagination. The trees are gone. The once beautiful mountain is now a tiered and scraped rocky hillside. The communities nearby are full of toxic fumes and polluted water. Nobody says STOP!
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January 6th, 2015
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Nancy Kane Chapman
Many thanks, Stefano for this feature in 10 Plus. It's wonderful to have a new opportunity to find an audience by being able to showcase our more popular works!
Nancy Kane Chapman
I am so honored to have your support and good words, Nikki. It stirs me to keep painting!
Karen Adams
This is fantastic! Nancy, I love how you can convey so much...there is great feeling and energy and a real sense of ground and earth here! Love it! I just read this quote and think it applies here. "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money" ~~~~Native American proverb
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Thank you, Karen for this powerful proverb. It really sums up my feelings and my painting nicely.!!
Angela Davies
Excellent abstract and description! LF
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Thanks so much, Angela. I'm working on a whole series of these and thinking I'll try to submit them to other venues.
R W Goetting
A profound work Nancy, very expressive and heartfelt. LF!
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Thanks so much....I do worry that greed is dictating every move and just a few people are getting rich and the rest of us and the poor earth are suffering....Can we even imagine mountain top "removal"? Maybe I'll do that one next!!
Anne-Elizabeth Whiteway
Nancy, your creativity is boundless. This is a very appealing and fascinating work of art. LOVE the textures, striations, the contrasts between darks and lights. Would love to reach out and touch. LF
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Thanks so much, Anne-Elizabeth for this comment! You know how much I love to paint mountains....and my heart goes out to them when I see such destruction. I keep thinking we'll use the sun for power!! Why not?
Nancy Kane Chapman
Thanks so much Jim and Dan for featuring this work in your groups. I so appreciate this honor!
Dawn Senior-Trask
What a resonant and masterful expression! Being from Wyoming, which as you know is a major coal-producing state, I know very well what you mean by this powerful and compelling painting. fav
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
So nice to hear from you, Dawn. I paint a lot of mountains. I come from mountains. I care a lot about them and see how much they count in our earth's health. I'm constantly fuming over these issues and finally they're in my art. I appreciate your wonderful comment!
Sherri Of Palm Springs
such a unique image dear Nancy, I just love your work you made a super abstract out of a coal company..how cool is that Sherrri Have a great weekend my friend flv
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Thanks so much, Sherri. I love to paint mountains and so....whatever happens to them...I'm right there looking!
Jeff Swan
Awesome work Nancy
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Thank you, Jeff. These were very special to me and I'm glad you like them!
Gun Legler
How can a sad thing be such a lovely painting? I love all your paintings in this color scale! fv
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Maybe if it's lovely someone will bother to look at it and then...well....you'd have to notice what's going on....!!! Thanks for your comment, Gun.
Uma Krishnamoorthy
What a wonderful painting! And the sensitivity to what we do our earth ! Unless we learn to live in harmony with nature instead of only "using" it as a resource.......I do not see much hope.
Nancy Kane Chapman replied:
Thanks so much, Uma. My home state is West Virginia and it's been the scene of much of the mountain top removal....devastating to the land, the water and most important, the health of the residents. I hope we move forward to solar and new technology before it's too late.
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