This is a painting by Wendy Heldmann, an American painter. Most of her work surrounds themes of natural disasters and the environment. I appreciate the framing of her paintings; some of the disasters become abstracted from the event, whereas others are integrated into an environment and it becomes more about the tension between nature and the man-made. By looking at her work altogether as a posed to a singular painting it references how commonplace these disasters are.
You can check out her other paintings at http://www.wendyheldmann.com
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