This work is part of an ongoing series exploring our human relationship with nature in an overwhelming culture of disposable convenience and consumerism. The paintings depict detailed objects in bright saturated colors set against simplified abstract surroundings. Common images in Darcy’s paintings include figures, plants, human-made objects, arching marks, and broken patterns. The subject is centralized and dramatically portrayed as though being advertised also as a nod to the history of still-life painting as a snapshot of culture and abundance. The abstracted elements represent moments of transition and subliminal energy. This work is often altered, painted out, in, and over.  This is an important part of the process, not only does it create layers of information, the act of changing the surface is itself a practice in transformation.