Ann Haberl
Madison, WI

Sunrise behind the trees.

There is a stillness in my work. It’s the way you feel when time seems to stop – at birth, death, and if you’re lucky during some awestruck holy moment in your life. Paradoxically, it is also the way you feel when time is racing by – clouds casting complex shadows on a lake, the changing sky at dusk. I’m holding that note in my paintings. The content of my work is about the transitory nature of images, indeed of life. The light is moving and in a breath, it will be gone. I paint to catch that moment, the moment before the light goes.