Tobacco Series

As I investigate the past and paint the present, I find that there are many similarities. I am fortunate to live in Winston-Salem, to have a cultural history of tobacco farming surrounding me and to be able to interview and talk with folks who grew up working on the tobacco fields or who still own them. My current focus is to contrast the cultural history of tobacco farming in Winston-Salem and North Carolina with present day imagery.

This watercolor is the first study of 12 that I plan to study time and the American landscape through the culture of tobacco farming.