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Shelley Lowell

  • Paintings & Poetry 2004-Present
    • Last Tree Standing Video
    • Last Dawn Video
    • Walk & Talk – Ridgefield Guild of Artists
  • Paintings 1996 – 2003
  • Feminist Art – Early Work
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Once There Were Trees

Once There Were Trees

2 panels, back to back,  free standing,  80 x 30 inches,
acrylic on wood, 2006
Available for sale. Price upon request. Giclees available upon request.

Once There Were Trees

Once there were trees 
every where
They lined city streets
softened
man-made facadesBent, curved, arched
over country lanes 
cooling hot asphaltEncircled lakes, 
streams, rivers, roads, highways,byways

Covered mountains 
thick in growth 
day turned night beneath their leafy canopy

Flowering trees adorned 
front-yard lawns 
Graceful lace 
swayed in the summer breeze

Slowly, insidiously 
they disappeared 
one by one 
two by two 
three by three 

No one seemed to care 
until there were none

Monuments built 
Homage to the tree 
They fell in disrepair 
Disappeared

Only their shadows remain

– Shelley Lowell

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