Desert-like area
Difficult conditions
Survive and thrive
Suspending presuppositions about the world, the artist concentrates on the way things appear in experience.
“The roots of all growth are in the soil of stillness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shared space
Common ground
Alienation isolation
City chaos begins to give way to aesthetic order.
“The best way to deal with chaos is to embrace it.” – Alan Watts
Reticulate mesh
Xylem transports
Gene expression
Intense back-lighting reveals structural detail.
“A unified core understanding will enable an increasing range of plant biologists to incorporate leaf venation into their research.” – Lawren Sack
Colorado river
Grand mesa
Valley floor
A large mountain snow pack continues to fill the river into summer, as evolutionary forces govern nature and human experience.
“An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.” – David Attenborough
Harry leaves
Delicate shades
Subtle greens
Resolved with great elegance.
“Consider any number of things possessing any common property. That property may be possessed by different things in different modes: let each separate mode in which the property is possessed be called an element. The aggregate of all such elements is called the manifold of that property.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Coastal plain region
Southeastern Virginia
Ditch detail
A rich ecosystem full of texture and particularity.
“George Washington and his brother John were cofounders of the first lumber company to operate in the swamp.” – Lex Pryor
Amber colored water
Swamp and peat soil
Leached organic acids
Bowl shaped and shallow (maximum depth six feet), the large Drummond Lake (3,142 acres) becomes very rough and treacherous in strong winds.
“Local geology reveals a complex series of marine, barrier, and lagoonal sediments, indicating as many as five transgressions, all possibly occurring during the Sangamon interglacial time period.” – Donald R. Whitehead
Full bloom
Early spring
Ornamental
One hard rain and they are gone.
“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.” – Iain M. Banks
Invasive species
Winter berries
Contain cyanide
Some photographic results are surprising concordant given the relatively nondescript location of the venue.
“They’re rhizomatous, meaning they reproduce vegetatively from their roots (as well as by seed). This results in dense thickets of bush that can replace native plant communities in the yard or landscape.” – Sarah Logie
Cinnamon plumage
White eyebrow stripe
Upward-cocked tail
Members of a pair-bond move around together in their territory year-round.
“Bird songs are a complex vocal signal that functions in a reproductive context to attract mates and defend territories.” -Rebecca Clapp