Post for the Parks (ongoing project)

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Post for the Parks is a work-in-progress that will span all of 2015.

I am researching the United States' 59 national parks, I am filling a small sketchbook with loose painty sketches for each of the parks, and I am making a small watercolor painting inspired by each of the parks.

Each week of 2015 I will be mailing out a painting to one national park and also posting the painting online. I am completing the paintings and mailing them in the chronological order in which the parks gained their National Park status. I am using the addresses listed as the official mailing addresses of the parks, some are not located within the actual park but hopefully they’ll get close.

This project is part examination of treasured wilderness protected by our government and part thank you love letter to those who work so tirelessly to preserve special places for the plants and animals that live there as well as human visitors. It’s also an exercise in routine and process for me. A way to create art I care deeply about but I don’t consider so precious that I won’t just send it off into the world.

This project is documented online at Post for the Parks. I will periodically upload the finished pieces here as well.