NEW WORKS — AND RESPECT — FROM AN ART-MAKER WHO OBSERVES THAT “HUMAN EXISTENCE DEPENDS ON TREES”

by Edward M. Gómez

The American artist Donna Sharrett lives and works in Ossining, New York, a small town on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of New York City. Along with various historic houses and churches, Ossining is known as the home of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security state prison that once housed New York State’s execution chamber.