Leave no footprint behind -

"Don't Fool With Mother Nature"
digital collage by Mick Mather

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"... when we heal the earth we heal ourselves ..."
- David Orr

This land is your land -

"Squaring Off With Nature"
digital collage & digital drawing by Mick Mather
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"... I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out til sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in ..."
- John Muir

Thursday Challenge: Free-4-All #2 -

"Second Growth"
digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... the richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration ..."
- Claude Monet

Naturally speaking -

"As Nature Intended"
digital collage by Mick Mather

There isn't much attached to this post by way of a particular meaning. It seems to fit with what I've been doing visually for the past few weeks, at least in regards to the handful posted recently. I find something comforting about this individual piece. In addition, I seem to be drifting in the direction of darker work and think I'll leave further discussion until more information comes my way.

Observing nature and a reinterpretation -

"Stream and Stones at High Water"
digitally manipulated fractal collage by Mick Mather

At this time of year, walking outside - or even just looking outside - to experience the air, light, heat, sun, rain and the changing of the season is a nice way to relax. Free flowing thought, influenced by the environment, flashes on and off with a variety of ideas and possibilities that will need to consider the sharp corners of recurring, urgent concepts that insist that I pursue them. For a number of years I've been interested in riparian restoration of a particular creek, my intervention being that of siting sculpture within the creek itself. Not a new idea, certainly, but one that continues to insert itself into my own consciousness. This post was created in response to much of this recent thinking.