Mark Brennan "Elegies"
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
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This body of work consists of allegorical "portraits" of people buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. Beneath every stone lie the remains of a real human being who once walked the same ground and breathed the same air that you and I do today.
Each piece in this exhibition is meticulously copied by hand from decayed leaves and twigs found on the ground either here in Brooklyn or on Cape Cod. This work is influenced by the "literati" artists of ancient China who often used landscape as a vehicle for conveying thoughts or feelings about human life and its relationship to the cosmos.
All profits derived from the sale of my work are donated to charities dedicated to the conservation of the natural environment.
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from June 28, 2011 to September 18, 2011