The Artist, with the Painting “Mt. Rundle, Banff, Alberta (Murphy’s Law)”

This piece is one of the first of the “Murphy’s Law” series.  

Firstly, there’s the idyllic background scene of Banff’s iconic Mt. Rundle, but…..wait.  There appears to be a thin red line  going across the top of the scene.  The second panel shows even more of the red and the stripe is much thicker.  The third panel depicts the red colour, almost like a blind, is dropping down to cover the wilderness scene.  And, at last, the red blind has dropped completely down as though to extinguish the wilderness scene entirely.

What the artist implies with this painting is what our informed viewers might guess - that the threat to Canada’s wilderness is real.  Climate change, clearcut logging, the unrelenting need of society for more space, more of everything.