BECOMING LAND

My image-making led me to see the trees speaking for the land and pouring out messages in media of their own invention. They remember their reciprocal relationship with the original people and the more recent clearing by newcomers.  Descendants of oaks and maples hold in their genetic history every crisis since the days of the glaciers.  Saplings along the roadsides struggle in a jungle of invasive vines and tell the old stories in their own visual language.  The sprouts that rise from the remains of broken factories reveal the generative potential of a place that is continually on the brink of formation.  I see my pictures as landscapes of becoming and compositions of movements and stillness cast in the current of time.