Sun Over Shade The Year Earth Changed

Narrative About the Work:
What if the ocean and world around us was all we'd ever need? What if that was enough?

These days, the ocean dances away without us. Yet, in our absence, so much has prospered.

The world has re-wilded itself.

How can we secure this balance of natural splendor to be preserved and experienced by those who walk beside us and those ahead?


Artist Statement
There is solemn contemplation in Natalia’s plein air practice that captures the indispensable splendor of our natural world. Immersed in this endangered raw beauty, one recalls how a landscape once thrived before overtaken by human touch.

We must collectively understand that there is such thing as ‘enough’.

The bell curve of life measures our happiness, purpose, and fulfillment reaches its peak at an intrinsic point unique to oneself, only to descend downward if following the road of excess, waste, and obsessive want.

If we can understand what constitutes ‘enough’, we can rewild and reinstate the natural dependency of our world and ourselves.

Natalia’s landscapes and seascapes implore the viewer to contemplate, “at what point is excess no longer serving the purpose of my life in balance with the preservation of our natural world? How can harmony with land and sea reveal my place of ‘enough’ within the raw beauty of our earth’s splendor?”

Carrying urgent matters facing the preservation of our wild world, Natalia reinforces art and nature as a necessary element of life, survival, and stability deserved by all who walk beside us and for all to come.