• Abstract Artwork
• Acrylic on Canvas
• Original Artwork Size: 60" x 48"

The painting compoisition represents the earth plates shifting and coming apart.

• The inspiration for this artwork came from an experience that I had with an earthquake which happened in Manhattan.  It was small but it made the room that I was in sway.  I didn't know whether to run out of the building in case it collapsed or not.  Was it safer on the street or inside?  What if the other buildings collapsed while I was walking down the street.  The end result was that I left the building and walked to the nearest park and waited until it was safe to go back.
• Earthquakes are the result of plate tectonics , or shifting plates in the crust of Earth, and quakes occur when the frictional stress of gliding plate boundaries builds and causes failure at a fault line. In an earthquake, elastic strain energy is released and waves radiate, shaking the ground.