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(Purisima Creek, CA), Acrylic on linen, grommets, 15 x 13.5”, 2025 <h2>Ferns in Northern California’s redwood forests are vital in maintaining moisture and supporting ecosystem health. Their fronds capture fog and dew, channeling water to the soil, which nourishes redwoods and surrounding vegetation, especially in summer months of the drought-prone state.</h2> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2264887500834484581348490660151/Ferns-at-Purisima-Creek--CA-13.5-x-15--4.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2264887685283478574370297268535/grandma-s-rice-paddy-fields-202FIVE-WEB-1.jpg Rice Paddies of My Grandma's Youth (Liaoning, China), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 13 x 11.5”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2264887685301925318444006820151/grandma-s-rice-paddy-fields-202FIVE-WEB-4.jpg Rice Paddies of My Grandma's Youth (Liaoning, China), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 13 x 11.5”, 2025 <h2>My grandma was born in 1938 in Liaoning, China, where she spent her childhood surrounded by rice paddies, vital to the local economy, culture, and survival. Seven years earlier, the Mukden Incident took place in the province, leading to the start of Japan’s invasion of China and WWII. My grandma was born into war; a land that was witness to massacres, starvation, forced labor, and occupation. She vividly recalls surviving on broken rice and millet, the full grains of rice from harvests taken by the Japanese occupation. Liaoning is also home to a unique abundance of fossils, buried in volcanic ash and mud to form fine-grained shale capable of preserving in high detail soft tissues, feathers, and organs. The land is wise and familiar with preservation and perseverance, keeping the score, documenting its history and inhabitants.</h2> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2264888178733882546100802996535/Himalayas-Mahalingam-s-10-day-trek-14-x-11.5--2025-4.jpg Himalayas (Mahalingam's 10 day trek), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 14 x 11.5”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2264888178789222778321931651383/Himalayas-Mahalingam-s-10-day-trek-14-x-11.5--2025-7.jpg Himalayas (Mahalingam's 10 day trek), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 14 x 11.5”, 2025 <h2>This painting is inspired by my stepdad Mahalingam, who was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and his stories of trekking through the Himalayas in the late 1980s at age 18 with his friends. His tales of hiking through vast mountain landscapes, drinking from crystal-clear streams, and feeling as though he were soaring above the world remind me of the deep connection we carry to the land, whether in our homelands or across the diasporas we belong to.</h2> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2264888178770776034248222099767/Himalayas-Mahalingam-s-10-day-trek-14-x-11.5--2025-6.jpg Himalayas (Mahalingam's 10 day trek), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 14 x 11.5”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2264888428447457071907003222327/Pu-er-tea-forest-house-Yunnan--CN-2025-JPG-2.jpg Pu’er Tea Forest House (Yunnan, CN), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 11.5 x 13”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2264888428465903815980712773943/Pu-er-tea-forest-house-Yunnan--CN-2025-JPG-3.jpg Pu’er Tea Forest House (Yunnan, CN), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 11.5 x 13”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2264888622599438447700033980727/Rio-de-Peixe--BR-Neide-2025-JPG-5.jpg Rio de Peixe, Brazil (Neide), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 13 x 11.5”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2264888622580991703626324429111/Rio-de-Peixe--BR-Neide-2025-JPG-3.jpg Rio de Peixe, BR (Neide), Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 13 x 11.5”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2264889474322505819017451194679/Stone-Labyrinth-Mori-Point--CA-2025-2.jpg Stone Labyrinth (Mori Point, CA), Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets, 15 x 13.5”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2497555189446197494914529937719/CWM-2025-PU-ER-TEA-FARM-FOREST-WEB-5.jpg Pu'er Tea Farm Forest (Yunnan, China), 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 82 x 48" <h2>In the wooden tea house where our multi-generational host shared tea from trees his family has cultivated for decades, I learned how this biodiverse polyculture system, practiced by the local indigenous Bulang and Dai peoples since the 10th century along the Ancient Tea Horse Road (茶马古道), allows each plant to contribute to the tea's place-based taste. The banyan's nitrogen-fixing bacteria enriching soil, the ginger and cardamom adding subtle aromatic compounds, the diverse root systems creating complex mycorrhizal networks that enhance the tea plants' nutrient uptake and ultimately influence the nuanced flavor profiles that distinguish ancient forest teas from monoculture plantation varieties.</h2> <h2></h2> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2497557095271561470216855144759/CWM-2025-PU-ER-TEA-FARM-FOREST-WEB-13.jpg Pu'er Tea Farm Forest (Yunnan, China), 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 82 x 48" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2497557197724778055599704820023/CWM-2025-PU-ER-TEA-FARM-FOREST-WEB-12.jpg Pu'er Tea Farm Forest (Yunnan, China), 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 82 x 48" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2497562408985319110769164994871/Scorched-Amazon--Cattle--Soy-and-Capital--2025-WEB-19.jpg Scorched Amazon: Cattle, Soy and Capital, 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 72 x 52" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2497562408948425622621745891639/Scorched-Amazon--Cattle--Soy-and-Capital--2025-WEB-12.jpg Scorched Amazon: Cattle, Soy and Capital, 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 72 x 52" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2497562408893085390400617236791/Scorched-Amazon--Cattle--Soy-and-Capital--2025-WEB-2.jpg Scorched Amazon: Cattle, Soy and Capital, 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 72 x 52" <gallery-columnized gutter="1.3rem" mobile-gutter="1rem"><media-item class="zoomable" hash="L2497562408985319110769164994871" limit-by="width" rotation="0" scale="100"><figcaption class="caption" slot="caption">Scorched Amazon: Cattle, Soy and Capital, 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 72 x 52" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2497562408966872366695455443255/Scorched-Amazon--Cattle--Soy-and-Capital--2025-WEB-17.jpg Scorched Amazon: Cattle, Soy and Capital, 2025, Natural earth and mineral pigments, linen, grommets, 72 x 52" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2625053093792859514065177332023/CWM-MMOCA-12.jpg China Camp, Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 25 x 25”, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2625053093811306258138886883639/CWM-MMOCA-11.jpg China Camp, Natural earth and mineral pigments on Dongba handmade paper, linen, grommets, 25 x 25”, 2025 https://catherinewangmcmahon.com/2024-1 2026-05-19T04:18:44+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2218814413519519018062225918263/Amazon-Wildfires---2024---Catherine-McMahon---WEB-.jpg Amazon Wildfires (São Paulo, BR), acrylic and pastel on linen, grommets, 11 x 9.5", 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2218814413464178785841097263415/20240823-baby-yak--yunnan--china-TIF.jpg Baby Yak in Shangri-La, Yunnan, China 中国云南香格里拉的小牦牛, acrylic on linen, grommets, 8 x 10”, 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2218814728958842678495558551863/Photo-Sep-22-2024--2-55-59-PM-2.jpg Amy's Redwood (1983-2022), acrylic on linen, grommets, 42 x 67”, 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2497560522713503853598964500791/CWM-2024-CATARACT-FALLS-WEB-1.jpg Cataract Falls (Laurel Tie), 2024, Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets, 42 x 68" <h2>Filtered green light cascades where Cataract Creek flows toward Alpine Lake, a landscape connected to the Laurel Tie Memorial honoring the Chinese railroad workers who built America’s infrastructure. Between 1865 and 1869, Chinese workers made up 80-90% of the Central Pacific Railroad workforce, and thousands carved through granite mountains with hand tools, endured brutal Sierra Nevada winters, and lived in temporary camps along creekbeds like this one. They faced explosions, landslides, and accidents while working with dangerous black powder and nitroglycerin, with hundreds dying in the process. The Laurel Tie itself came from a California laurel tree on Mount Tamalpais, serving as the ceremonial “last tie” for the Transcontinental Railroad at the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony. Yet just thirteen years later, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 became America’s first immigration law to target a specific ethnicity, providing an absolute ban on Chinese laborers entering the United States. The laborers who constructed the railroad were frequently denied access to the very transportation network they built, and their experiences trace an unbroken line from historical injustices to contemporary violence and exclusion faced by immigrants and workers. </h2> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2497568265365393911709064284471/CWM-2024-CATARACT-FALLS-WEB-2.jpg Cataract Falls (Laurel Tie), 2024 Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets 42 x 68" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2497568265402287399856483387703/CWM-2024-CATARACT-FALLS-WEB-3.jpg Cataract Falls (Laurel Tie), 2024 Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets 42 x 68" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2497568265420734143930192939319/CWM-2024-CATARACT-FALLS-WEB-4.jpg Cataract Falls (Laurel Tie), 2024 Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets 42 x 68" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2497570574362796362007349610807/CWM-2025-BIG-BASIN-MYCORRHIZA-WEB-2.jpg Big Basin Mycorrhiza, 2024, Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets, 42 x 68" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2497570574399689850154768714039/CWM-2025-BIG-BASIN-MYCORRHIZA-WEB-4.jpg Big Basin Mycorrhiza, 2024, Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets, 42 x 68" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2497570574418136594228478265655/CWM-2025-BIG-BASIN-MYCORRHIZA-WEB-5.jpg Big Basin Mycorrhiza, 2024, Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets, 42 x 68" https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2497570574325902873859930507575/CWM-2025-BIG-BASIN-MYCORRHIZA-WEB-1.jpg Big Basin Mycorrhiza, 2024, Acrylic, pastel, natural earth and mineral pigments on linen, grommets, 42 x 68" <h2>The painting acknowledges both the destructive power of the 2020 fires and fire's historical role in this landscape, where Indigenous peoples practiced cultural burning for thousands of years before the colonization of the Americas. These traditional burning practices involved burning smaller, controlled fires that promoted forest health and prevented the buildup of fuel loads. Decades of fire suppression policies that replaced these practices contributed to conditions that allowed the 2020 fires to burn with unprecedented intensity. Tracing and carving mycorrhizal (root-fungi network) pathways into the paint and linen surface, I sought to reveal how forest communities rebuild through collective resilience and symbiotic relationships extending far below ground. Through repeated observation and kinship with Big Basin, the painting explores the profound interdependence that makes healing possible, whether in redwood groves adapting to new climate-changed conditions or human communities learning to share and take care of one another.</h2> https://catherinewangmcmahon.com/2023 2026-04-28T00:34:40+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2218809955826920118001658808631/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-71-copy.jpg Ocean Beach (San Francisco, CA), pastel on paper, 14 x 11”, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2218809955845366862075368360247/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-73-copy.jpg Casa Azul Blue, acrylic and pastel on linen, 8 x 10”, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2218809955790026629854239705399/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-64-copy.jpg Purisima Creek Redwoods, acrylic on linen, 10 x 14”, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2218809955771579885780530153783/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-56-copy.jpg Ghost Albino Redwood, acrylic on linen, 10 x 14”, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2218809955753133141706820602167/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-53-copy.jpg Dedicated to Amy McMahon (1983-2022), acrylic on linen, 8 x 14”, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2218809955808473373927949257015/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-65-copy.jpg CZU Wildfire Burnt Truck, acrylic and pastel on linen, 12 x 8", 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2218810048134427462844255095095/California-poppies--detail.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2218810048152874206917964646711/California-poppies--front.JPG California Poppies 二, acrylic on linen, 8 x 10”, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2218810048171320950991674198327/California-poppies--side.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2218898726927405333813514520887/Nojoqui-Falls---.jpg Nojoqui Falls (Solvang, CA), acrylic on linen, 14 x 20”, 2023 https://catherinewangmcmahon.com/2022 2026-04-28T00:34:40+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2218788273431702159426141604151/California-Redwoods-triptych.jpg California Redwoods: Mutual Aid Mychorriza (triptych), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 147 x 85", 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2218789606504109390120598686007/3-3-California-Redwoods-Mutual-Aid-Mycorrhiza--2022-.jpg California Redwoods: Mutual Aid Mychorriza (right 3/3 triptych), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2218789606485662646046889134391/2-3-California-Redwoods-Mutual-Aid-Mycorrhiza--2022-.jpg California Redwoods: Mutual Aid Mychorriza (center 2/3 triptych), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 2022 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https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2218790670438520585392697690423/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-31-copy.jpg California Redwoods: Mutual Aid Mychorriza (center 2/3 triptych), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 2022 – detail https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2218793741249559791748045654327/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-36-copy.jpg Reservoir Drought and Wildfire (Alpine Lake, Bolinas, CA), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 78 x 32.5", 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2218793741341793512116593412407/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-47-copy.jpg Wildfire Lilies, acrylic on canvas, grommets, 36 x 57.5”, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2218793741304900023969174309175/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-45-copy.jpg Save East River Park (New York, NY), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 36 x 58”, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2218793741286453279895464757559/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-38-copy.jpg Reservoir Drought and Wildfire (Alpine Lake, Bolinas, CA), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 78 x 32.5", 2022 – detail https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2218793741415580488411431618871/I-fell-in-love-with-you-in-Yosemite-CA-2022-Edit.jpg I fell in love with you in Yosemite, CA, acrylic on canvas, grommets, 51 x 25", 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2218793741378687000264012515639/Eucalyptus---Grass-Valley-CA---12-x-8--acrylic-on-linen---full.JPG Eucalyptus (Grass Valley Trail, Oakland, CA), acrylic on linen, 8 x 12”, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2218793741268006535821755205943/2023-CaliforniaNature-FourChicken-37-copy.jpg Reservoir Drought and Wildfire (Alpine Lake, Bolinas, CA), acrylic on canvas, grommets, 78 x 32.5", 2022 – detail https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2218793741397133744337722067255/Eucalyptus---Grass-Valley-CA---12-x-8--acrylic-on-linen.JPG Eucalyptus (Grass Valley Trail, Oakland, CA), acrylic on linen, 8 x 12”, 2022 – detail 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