"Orchidaceous" Dan MacDougall Thursday, February 1, 2007 - Saturday, February 24 Thursday Feb.1 7-9pm In the spring of 2006, after 30 years of working with abstract concepts and images, I felt compelled to do a series of representational works.  The images I chose to work with are orchids.  These works are meant to be an expression of the exotic nature of these beasts of the plant kingdom. I am intrigued by the romance and danger of their history of collection from remote and dark locations of the planet, the lore and legends of the men who risked their lives to find them, the almost human or animal behavior of their evolution from a terrestrial to epiphytic habit in order to reach the light, and the often erotic and evocative nature of their forms. DAN MacDOUGALL  2007