Life Cycle

Gardens are places of healing, refuge, and peace of mind. We all need a haven, an island of space separate from life filled with work, schedules, and deadlines. I hold a seed in my hand, and I imagine the life that will emerge from it. Holding a seed and burying it in the soil, then checking with anticipation as the first glimpse of green emerges from the rich earth reminds us of the power within each of us to make, create, build and mold—and how, even with that power, we have to accept the imperfection and accidents that happen through nature and learn to embrace them. Just as my seed monoprints combine random texture with control, the elements of seed, sun, water and environmental elements conflate. Nature is both beautiful and scary, ordered and chaotic, but one thing is certain—we cannot control it.