This new body of work explores color and form through images that reference the wetland ecologies of the northern Gulf Coast.  These are spaces where water meets land, places that thrive in tidal ambiguity and in the delicate balance of a breathing sea and constantly regenerating borderland.  They are also places endangered by human encroachment, industry, looming rising seas and anthropogenically altered patterns of nature.  In titling the show ‘Golden Hour’, I refer to both that time of day just after sunrise or before sunset when the light is radiantly diffuse, as well as to the medical use of the phrase which points to that critical moment just after traumatic injury, when the clock is ticking on successful treatment.  We are, of course, in that golden hour of urgent possibility for this beautiful planet, having inflicted so much damage and injury upon natural systems.  It is my hope that in reflecting both the beauty and fragility of these landscapes, the atmospheric paintings of ‘Golden Hour’ will inspire a deepened sense of attention and awareness to the essential and vital splendor of this precarious world.