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My work represents a visceral experience in nature, while my source materials document and archive a physical journey. I emphasize immersion and physical impact by using abstraction to deconstruct landscape imagery depicting a specific place to move the painting to a different realm. 

Rush recalls, “Even as a young girl, forests were my refuge, my solace, and extremely magical. Trees were not trees; they were characters on a stage, where I would look for forms that interacted and made visuals that felt like the dramas in my head.