Before Me, The Marsh Knows

Evelyn Gardiner utilizes a diptych format encased in painted floral borders, echoing early Renaissance altarpieces to frame contemporary environments. The left panel drives the eye down a sunlit footbridge using strict linear perspective. On the right, a nude female figure stands in a marsh beneath a concrete highway overpass, contrasting exposed flesh with rigid infrastructure. Gardiner uses the marsh as a transitional ecolog, caught between shifting tide and solid ground, to ground her inquiry into human vulnerability during times of uncertainty.