Nature Culture

"We are made from Mother Earth, and we shall all go back to Mother Earth." - Shenandoah belief

Nature Culture is a juxtaposition of how humans have interacted with our environment while also juxtaposing historical and contemporary ideas of nature. Even his artworks as a child instantly reminded the viewer of primordial cave paintings. Though he did not know it at the time, the major concerns of his life's work were already in place.

Finds in Snow
Photographic series
1977
11 x 28 in.

Myself Becoming One with My Tree
1969
Photographic series
16 x 60 in.