Nurturing Time, Life in a Backyard Garden examines how we regard our natural surroundings as we nurture, shape and control them.
The series depicts the human presence in Nature in the form of arrangements made from flowers and plants selected from the photographer’s garden, and places them amidst the cycle of growth, decay and rebirth that unfolds there.
Order and happenstance are juxtaposed over the course of a year as the garden evolves to embrace both the tended and the wild. Flowers bloom and die; weeds turn into flowers. All are part of the variety of garden life collected and photographed as displays that resonate with a range of emotion, underscoring the power of floral imagery in our psychic lives.
Abundance, loss, vitality and death: each becomes visible in the context of seasonal change, attesting to the richness of the garden and our emotional response to it. Memory—time’s shadow—is present here, too, as events and lives are evoked and memorialized by these images.
Please note that Nurturing Time is comprised of twenty images in an edition of twelve. More images will be added to this site in the near future.
