This painting is about apathy in the face of environmental destruction. The bulldozer and fires in the background are not too subtle reminders that time is not on our side. The inspiration for this painting was Michelangelo's "Libyan Sybil" on the Sistine Chapel. As time goes by, the more I see how nature is both helped and exploited by humanity. This dialectic is the driving force behind my current body of work. To me, nature is most interesting where it intersects with humanity, probably because I have been intimately involved with the natural world in one form or another for my entire life. It seems I usually have an eye out for the striking examples of the collision between nature and humanity that have become a near daily occurrence in our society.