Planned and deliberate working methods based in traditional egg tempera technique inform my process.

I approach the landscape as if constructing a stage set, sculpting land forms and placing characters and objects with a focus on story telling. The goal is sterile beauty, the result of dominion over the environment.

My newest body of work injects the idealized agrarian landscape with ritual, reenactments, and historical characters.

For Juan de Fuca Reenactment, the two Spanish ships of Juan de Fuca's exploration of the western coast enter a small coastal residence. Recreating a landing and flag raising highlights the control imposed upon the landscape.

Geometrically exacting, rigidly built structures, be they house or tree contrast the original wilderness destination of these explorers. With nothing left to discover these inhabitants reenact history to indulge impulses left wanting.

- Nathan DiPietro