Snake Pit (2023) metamorphosisOil on canvas24 x 30 in The bar is alive; not with light, but with motion, memory, and the echo of guitars. A portrait of community in its rawest form, thick with laughter, sweat, and something sacred. Its chaos and communion. Exhibition History Reflections, Old Fire Hall, Whitehorse, 2023 ProvenanceArtists Studio
The town looks washed clean
but in the way distortion exposes truth
Two women hang laundry against the backdrop of a vast
the landscape isn’t wilderness
A surreal meeting of eras: a reclining stone-like figure watches as a canoe of voyageurs fights upriver
The painting forces the viewer to confront the violence of resource extraction
and the earth itself exposed
Painted during Halin’s early years in Patagonia
A kaleidoscope of stacked houses cascades down the hillside — sun-bleached walls
this work captures the tangled intimacy of the forest just beyond his Bariloche studio
recording the landscape in a moment of violent change
and painterly movement
