The Interactive Watershed:
TREE PORTRAITS

Every line should be the universe to you”

Robert Henri – The Art Spirit

Artist Statement

These lines are the universe and earth to me. You see, my artwork is a protest against global warming. The lovely forests gracing our earth are dying. Truly, the earth is being consumed. So I go out camping, with sadness and urgency in my heart, yet am quieted during the process of drawing and documenting what we are losing. “Finding our soul’s beauty does that—gives us tremendous freedom from worry.” (Love poems from God) And, such is the power of a beautiful tree: to give until it dies and then go on giving in the form of art. The way I see it, the immense and immediate concerns of our earth’s transformation helps to sweep aside denial, fear, conflict, and paralysis and allows each and every one of us to help the earth and all of humanity in whatever hopeful, peaceful way we can.

Project Desription

This project provides a series of ink and watercolor drawings tied to "real world" mapping coordinates for select trees in the San Miguel River watershed.

The GPS coordinates of the Engelmann Spruce depicted above are:

N 37 degrees, 57.091' W 108 degrees, 09.790'

Directions to the tree: Hwy 145 North to Specie Creek Rd. (CO Rd M44), approx 8 miles, by old homestead.

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Christina Jarus
Montrose, Colorado
Fall 2008

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