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Layer Upon Layer of Branches
Layers of Curly Branches
Long before I even imagined taking photos of myself or really anything, indeed, before I thought much about myself past the extent of hunger or rest, I became friends with the flora surrounding me. Rustling oaks and ancient apricots, crimson fairy trumpets and white evening primrose flowers, open to the giant moths and bats in the evenings. I studied the trees, the flowers. The shape of their leaves, the electric feeling they would give off, the shape of their being burned into my mind. I don’t really know where my love for nature begins and where I, myself, end. We are all part of the same interconnected web of energy, exchanging carbon and oxygen.

I put together specimen cards, collected through the hills where I lived. Evening Prim Rose and Pink Wild Rose were the first entries. I obtained some papers with sideless clear envelopes and asked how to spell the words for the labels, and used foot long sections of tape to secure my prizes in various states of dissection. Life seemed more straightforward then. I knew what I wanted to do, and I did it (most of the time – within reason for a six year old).

Plant life, with its myriad of forms, has always fascinated me. The graceful curves of a vine as it finds its way toward the light, climbing ever higher, reaching and clutching. I don’t know that I could walk past an iris without stopping to admire the iridescent glittering, with its shades of purple unfathomable, as black veins lined with white feathers protrude deeply down, splitting the center of each petal. Really an iris in any of the very many colors could stop me in my tracks, though the purple ones always draw me in the most. The hidden city maps in leaves. Fractal patterns, repeating over and over in innumerable forms. Layer upon layer of tangled branches, beauty hidden in between, like a bird, making its nest there.
Seeds in Spider Web
Seeds in Spider Web
Twisted Cottonwoods
Twisted Cottonwoods
Prickly Pear Spines
Prickly Prickly Pear
Secret Map in Bodhi Tree Leaf
Secret Map in Bodhi Tree Leaf
Wavy Evergreen - San Fransisco Botanic Gardens
Wavy Evergreen - San Fransisco Botanic Gardens
New Growth on Siberian Elm Fractal Pattern
New Growth on Siberian Elm
Golden Trumpet Vine in Black and White
Golden Trumpet Vine in Black and White
Fern - Holland, Michigan
Fern - Holland, Michigan
Vines on Castle Wall - ABQ BioPark
Vines on Castle Wall - ABQ BioPark
Apple Blossom Under BlackLight
Apple Blossom Under BlackLight
Lone Desert Flower
Lone Desert Flower
Vines and Stormy Skies
Vines and Stormy Skies
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Pink Peonies in Black and White
Pink Peonies in Black and White
Snake Air Plant - New River, Belize
Snake Air Plant - New River, Belize
New Datura Bloom
New Datura Bloom
Tiny Magenta Flowers - White Sands National Monument
Tiny Magenta Flowers - White Sands National Monument
Succulents Against Glass
Succulents Against Glass
Arugula
Arugula
Scarlet Globemallow
Scarlet Globemallow

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