Earth Rising: Hanging by a Thread, mixed media piece made by local artist Ada Asenjo.
Dimensions: 24” x 16”
Made using: a slice of a felled-by-a-storm hemlock tree of the northern woods, moss and fungus, cotton and acrylic paint.
Ada Asenjo was born in the Dominican Republic. She is a self-taught artist and is always in learning mode. As a child, she and her family migrated to the United States and learned to live in a new and different culture while maintaining familial customs and traditions.Her love of flowers has led her to work in the realm of ephemeral materials and provoked philosophizing on the essence of Life, our place and purpose in the world, and how to act in order to live equitably.
The piece “Earth rising: hanging by a thread” is a cathartic creation for this ALT show. Our beautiful planet’s decline is evident. Helplessness and hopefulness make strange bedfellows, but seem to be the order of the day.