IV Landscape was created shortly after my mother was hospitalized for a brain aneurysm in 1989. She had surgery that lasted twelve hours and for months was incapable of communicating but after a long recovery period regained a full recovery. The IV in the painting represents the many IVs she had administered during her hospitalization.

 

The painting is now 32 years old and for me still resonates as a landscape in need of help just as my mother needed the aid of doctors and nurses to bring her back. Central in the painting is an egg shape form suggesting a new life about to be born. Emerging out of the IV a serpentine-like hose drains into a river adjacent to the egg form.

 

At the base of the sculpture lies a painted mosaic of red and yellow triangles which repeat the same oval shape of the egg. Bees create hives in a meticulous order. Geometry and order is as much a part of the natural world as it is in the human one.

 

Finally, yellow is a color of the sun and symbolizes light. — Ed Fraga 2024