Prayer for Swan Island
31 ½ x 41 ½ ", oil on canvas, 2001
A painting made my thesis year of college. Swan Island is an industrial park in North Portland. The Tibetan prayer flags strung in a sapling serve as a veil. The wind takes these prayers around the world, but Im aiming them straight at the docks on the north side of the island. Will our polluted rivers ever be clean again? Not for sale