Tall, spindly palm trees with their crowns on fire were a familiar sight during the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires. Burning palms became a somber visual shorthand for the fires or simply for life ...
Inside Riverside’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, two walls in a quiet corner are devoted to paintings of palm trees on fire. Painted in 2021, “Three Studies of Palm Trees” by Perry ...