Kevin Muente

My desire to explore the human experience via the metaphor of landscape led me to include figures within nature. I hope that the viewer reads these as metaphysical senses of place. The natural landscape serves as a backdrop to moments of human action, but the emotions conveyed tap into grand, universal themes. I cast my models as archetypes and they in some way have lived these roles. On reflection, I realize that these cinematic paintings depict people facing the most elemental conflict in nature — life and death — and they ask more questions than they answer.