Childhood's End

I invented a colorful family of “abstract naturals,” forms that are vaguely suggestive of landscape fundamentals such as coral, tree, boulder, mushroom, log, butte, and spire. These I arranged and painted as if they are floating in the air, planted on the ground, or sitting on a table like fruit. So a yellow boulder in the park can also be a hunk of cheese at a smorgasbord. Did I mention this all takes place in another universe?  - Alexander Ross, Untitled, watercolor, colored pencil and graphite on paper, 2008