During this time of pandemic and, often, enforced isolation, I turned inward, as did so many, to focus on new ways of viewing the world. As a landscape photographer I have always enjoyed the plant life in our woods, parks and neighborhoods. Over the last 100 days, walking early in the morning when many places are deserted, I have gathered all kinds of plant matter, insects, stones and sticks to create still life images. Internal and external turmoil seemed to mark the days of solitude and creation, leading me to work to capture both beauty and transformation in these images.

I think in terms of theme and variations in the way that many great painters and composers revisit the same theme again and again, but with an eye each time to finding something new; shifting the terrain or the point of view.

Details in the natural world form the basis of these images, which are influenced by Japanese woodblock prints and the wabi-sabi concept of beauty as imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.