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'Dreaming with the trees' shows rural flavor
Residents of the Pensacola area have an up-close-andpersonal relationship with their trees. They love them, they hate them, they plant them, and they cut them down. Sometimes we pull them off our roofs and out of the walls of our homes.
Artist Ron Roland in his new painting series, "Dreaming With Trees," explores his aesthetic feelings for trees. In scale, Roland's trees tower like giants over the lonely dwellings they vastly outnumber. They are beautiful but they are unreal - perfect spheres of color, reminding the viewer of topiary art or a flower arrangement.
"The trees in my paintings, like the plains and fields, are controlled, manicured," explains Roland, "because nature is sometimes more palatable when we can control it. Which we cannot do in reality of course, at least not altogether with success. That's part of what art is about sometimes, controlling nature, and molding it to our interior vision or interpretation. Let's face it: we're re-creating nature in our own image."
Roland's Dreaming With Trees through Sept. 15 at Barbella's, 210 Church St.
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