CAMELIA Journals Cueva Prints forests and a variety of

forests and a variety of wildlife

represents the center of the Earth and ourselves

The snails represent slow and continuous movement

rather than a printed technique

CAMELIA Journals Cueva Prints forests and a variety ofCAMELIA is the first painting in the Mother Earth series about the struggle with preserving and restoring the environment. The female image is symbolic of Mother Earth and each plant, insect, and animal has its own symbolism related to the natural cycles of death and decay, growth and rebirth, what is naturally occurring and what is unnaturally occurring in the environment. In this painting Mother Earth is essentially gagged and oppressed but she