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The Language of Trees - Beech Folio

Firmly planted at the nexus of our communication with and about the natural world, trees may be able to tell us more about the nature of things than we yet understand. These photographs explore the visual language of the Beech Tree by deconstructing the various components of their expression in ways that can help us begin to see what it is that they are saying. 

Colonial Aspects

When William Faulkner wrote that “the past is never dead, it’s not even past”, he was referring to the deep and verdant culture of the American South. This startlingly simple and surprising notion applies equally to the American northeast, where the country’s foundational culture, with all its apocryphal formality, lives on in the colonial architecture that characterizes the historical towns of coastal New England.

Concurrents

In an age of rising oceans and intensifying storms, when waves crash against the seawall in Lynn, Massachusetts during a confluence of strong winds and extreme high tides, the results are as worrisome as they are spectacular.

Mitigation

The winter of 2020/2021 was an unsettled time, marked by the continuing pandemic and the hopes of a vaccine. Long walks became a source of both mental and physical health for many. For me, the walks were most satisfying when the winter weather was at its most fierce. I blended the photographs I took during these walks with closeup textural images of snow, ice, rock and metal I took concurrently to reflect the disparate qualities of the experience.