Reviews

Review from "Queen Anne News"

"Human bodies and nature intertwine"

Enid Smith Becker's paintings have powerful beauty

Enid Smith Becker's "Protean Self" (bottom-left). "It's a different kind of beauty. It's beauty as power and beauty as life and time. There's something more visceral about it." More of her work can be seen online at 64dances.com

By Maggie Larrick

When Queen Anne's Enid Smith Becker paints the human body it becomes impossible to determine whether the person is transforming into its surrounding landscape or vice versa.

For example, in Becker's "Protean Self" a birch tree sheds its bark to become a woman stretching her arms skyward in esctasy, or is the woman growing bark and returning to her natural self as a tree?

I'm very much interested in our relationship to the natural world. All of my artwork starts with what if, what if you were to become a pieces of the layer of the natural world?

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