It has been medically proven that when immersed within nature, one’s anger, fear and stress tends to melt away. Nature heals. Even placing a plant indoors can bring one closer to nature. For me, being in the mountains, desert and near the ocean, I can find my personal place of sanctuary. Yet, Mother Nature doesn’t […]
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Art + Science: Lost Ground : Linda Alterwitz
This week, our Art + Science Editor, Linda Alterwitz, shares the work of photographers making work about the phenomenon of Nature and Nurture, where nature is a force for healing and renewal, but also a force that needs care and consideration. Linda states: It has been medically proven that when immersed within nature, one’s anger, […]
Christine Fitzgerald: Trafficked
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Trafficked by Christine Fitzgerald. Christine Fitzgerald is a photo-based artist from Ottawa, Canada. Christine has always been captivated with nature. […]
Fritz Liedtke: Sacred
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Sacred by Fritz Liedtke. Fritz Liedtke began photographing as a teen, carrying his Kodak 110 Instamatic around on a […]
Charalampos Kydonakis: Warn’d in Vain
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Warn’d in Vain by Charalampos Kydonakis. Charalampos Kydonakis, aka “dirtyharrry,” is an architect & amateur photographer based in Crete. His inspiration comes […]
Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West
Natural disasters are ever increasing with climate change, and in California, we have been bracing ourselves for The Big One for decades. We are kept alert by tremors and shakers that seem to state,”Don’t get too comfortable”, but another disaster, insidious and onerous, has equaled in its horrors. Wildfires, raging out of control, spreading into […]