'Flowers Grow Out of My Grave': New work by betterArts resident Jennifer Elizabeth Crone

Oil on Canvas with distressed photographs, texts, and other things, by Jennifer Elizabeth Crone

Here's what Jennifer had to say about her latest completed work:

This painting took an extremely long time, perhaps the longest stretch of time I've ever worked on anything. I started it about a year ago with a thought I had while riding a train to New Jersey and looking at the naked trees through the fog. After painstakingly, and time consumingly, painting each tree in harrowing detail (which was already the 3rd layer, mind you), I of course put an egg made of text all over the bulk of the trees. At one point this painting was looking quite neon and graphic, if you can imagine. And here is the final work, a forest grown over a forgotten promise, winter covered with the inkling of spring.

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