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: Nature and Nurture: Julie Fischer McCarter
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 […]
Art + Science: Nature and Nurture: Howard Lewis
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Anderson Wrangle: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
The Outer Banks in North Carolina is considered to be a popular holiday destination, but it is also a place deeply threatened by rising sea levels. Photographer, Anderson Wrangle’s Outer Banks project reveals the fragility and sublime beauty of the place. It is evident that there is great importance in his practice to contemplate nature […]