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“In his ‘drawn’ bas-relief composed of leaves, with figures made of tiny twigs, McQueen’s Falling Fruit suggests a fraught and entangled relationship between man and nature. We may think we can control our world, but McQueen’s camouflage-like scene suggests other- wise. The tiny stick figures are only a small part of the environment. In Falling Fruit’s jungle, the natural aggressors are sharks, not lions—like nature, the artist juxtaposes surprising combinations that remind us that life is not predictable. McQueen’s bark-covered sculptures and drawings with sticks lead the viewer to question his or her relationship to the world, and reconsider the natural order of things.”
Jane Milosch, Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers (brown- grotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2016):
