Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistKeri Foreman CollectionElement-Air
Description I took this image back in August of 2010 while I was visiting my sister in my home of Huntsville, Alabama. Alabama has some of the most beautiful landscapes I've seen across the US, and the lushness of the deciduous trees there is amazing. Last night I found out that some horrible man decided to kill off a famous landmark tree at my Alma Matter, Auburn University. Toomer's Corner has a grove of oak trees there, with the oldest being at the corner that is 130 years old. I could see it from my dorm room changing with the seasons. I celebrated our victory's there, and mourned a loss of my mother there, I got my first homecoming corsage there, and even kissed my first real Southern Gentleman there. Yes, it's just a tree, but to me it was more then that, it was a strange, silent part of my life for 4 years, and yet, this 'man' decided that he didn't like the football team who won that year so he took fate into his own hands and poisoned the grove. Auburn has amazing Agricultural, Horticultural, Landscape Architecture and Biological departments, and even the best will not be able to save these trees. Why? They didn't do anything other then weather the seasons and grant us shade in the summer and made for great gathering palaces? I'm learning that there are fight s to fight and fights you won't even get a leg up on. This fight, I can't even get my toe in the door. But I can tell you this, this person has to answer to a Higher Power, and they don't take likely to people destroying their property. This is a moment where I'd be more afraid of that, then whatever the law of this planet decides. So I dedicate my Alabama Afternoon to Auburn's Toomer's Corner in hope that they can figure out a way and if not, mourn, learn, and grow again. After all isn't that what a life cycle is?
Keri Foreman, Seattle Member Since September 2010 Artist Statement In music, a fugue is a composition where two or more voices build on a theme that recurs frequently. In the course of the composition, multiple variations of that theme are played and built on again. This process occurs with businesses too. Sometimes the theme is simple, sometimes it is complex. Either way, the player needs a good conductor to guide the musician.
I started learning about art and photography from both my parents in very early on in my life. In 1986, I got my first SLR camera (a Minolta X-170 which I still love using today.) I also use a digital Kodak. I manipulate my images using a combination of Photoshop, The Gimp, Picasa, and on a rare occasion Illustrator, and just let the image tell me what it wants to do. Colors and textures of nature fascinate me, and so my concentrations are on those subjects.