MTC ART GALLERY

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission Community Art Program Presents

Darwin’s Garden

Three-Dimensional Paintings by
Judith White Marcellini

Notes on
Darwin’s Garden

“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.”
— Charles Darwin

The ideas of Charles Darwin have long influenced how I view the world, in particular his wonder at the diversity of the fantastic forms in the living world, their interrelatedness, and ephemeral, changing existence. These thoughts were in my mind as I visited friends’ gardens and made a series of paintings around the time of Darwin’s 200th birthday in 2009.
— Judith White Marcellini