Environmental Art

Being involved in art-making and teaching for many decades causes pause about the number of garbage cans filled toward these efforts. I often wonder what it would be like to exist in a society that felt little need to manipulate earth’s natural beauty. Is this even possible? That said, I have also been fortunate to be involved with the ideas and work of landscaping since I was young. One can get bogged down with the shunning of weeds or the manipulation of topiary, but as art material, plants are fascinating. On many levels. I have conducted research on the typologies of gardens and have always kept a garden for agrarian and aesthetic reasons. These images represent other impulses to juxtapose art with nature–or perhaps to highlight nature as art. They are rudimentary, but I feel a larger project of land preservation and ‘scaping in my future.