Jedd Garet

[1] Influenced by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, Garet uses garish colors in jarring contrasts to explore relationships between nature, man, and art.

He combines human figures, classical architectural fragments and abstraction in narrative works, and is known for his amorphous life forms.

Nothing Too Strange and Beautiful, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art demonstrates this phase of the artist's monumental sculpture.

It was originally created as a folly for a sculpture park exhibition at Wave Hill in New York City.

[2] In later work, figures, trees and other more recognizable objects were added to the minimalist flat ground, creating tension.