Snake Pit (2023) metamorphosis

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