Jim Shaw this book draws attention to

this book draws attention to the idea of lyrical naturalism as a conceptual bridge that unites the power of poetry with the allurement of the natural world

He also looks at the transition from the colonial post-colonial modernity by placing the book in the context of his own family’s migrant experience

a trained botanical illustrator and scholar

Visits to Japan and Germany informed his Prairie House period

Jim Shaw this book draws attention toBlending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw (b. 1952) creates rich, dream like worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist's oeuvre inter relates, this substantial monograph argues that the artist's seemingly disparate series actually function together to present a lucid and insightful portrait of America today.