Midnight Grove

Russ Havard

Growing up in rural East Texas, life and nature are intertwined. Nature creates a backdrop and gives shape to the circumstance in the foreground. As my life moves forward, I adjust, adapt, dissect, and rearrange the endless motion of patterns and events. My art is the by product of this physical, mental, and spiritual composting.

I've had quite a difficult struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, an auto-immune disease, for several years. Sometimes I address my health issues in a specific manner, but my experience, and vision to convey loss and hope. Patterns of cut paper become the rebuilding of broken moments into a new, fully realized creation. The ebb and flow of tides and seasons mark the division of time and the transitory mature of life. They remind me that nothing really stays stagnant.