In this portfolio, Tracy Watts is observing, noticing and exploring a food forest, cultivated in and among a labyrinth, at The Grove, a Presbyterian church on the East side of Charlotte, NC. She is drawn to this work in exploration of relationship to land and place, the role of the faith and healing in the context of the American Christian church and the wisdom of the women doing the majority of this work.

Still Life is an ongoing meditation on observation as a form of knowing. Walking is how I keep time with the world. I collect what I find at the edges of my sight, frequently led there by my dog's inquisitive snout. Seedpods, bark, flowers, and nests in various states of decay and transformation make their way back with me, where the exploration continues on an old flatbed scanner.

For over 10 years, Yvonne Dalschen has been visiting, tracing the indentations and fieldstones for the Africans in bondage on one side of the road, and the groomed headstones of the enslavers on the other—wondering at the unseen hands paying respect, moving and disappearing.

Dani Fresh explores neighboring, stewardship, and reciprocity in The Peach Tree. In this sequence, Dani goes out into the rare sunlight winter days of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a way to feed her during the long wintering of Pennsylvania winters.

Gwen Walstrand’s fictional and fragmented images, made from camera-less chemigrams and collaged snippets from her own photographs, attempt to slice through history, space, galaxies, and reconfigure our understanding of our position in the world as both precarious and hopeful.

Julia Nagai found herself stepping into a world of portals, connecting the local to the global. In this portfolio, she invites us into an enchanting journey through the greenhouse doors.

Season of Earth offers us a glimpse into the ordinary yet beautiful moments of life being made and unmade. At the heart of this work is a quiet sensitivity to life’s shifting and changing rhythms.

Anna Rotty responds to things bound, in space and in long, drawn-out time…Rock, sediment, earth, aridification of small plots of property in her neighborhood.

Casey Visco’s photographic observations were made during daily walks in the riverfront parks and trails around Asheville, North Carolina. Visco’s work reminds us that our ordinary earthbound moments can be full of beauty and quiet meaning.

In This Place celebrates the intimate and familiar places near Paul Wanta’s home in Wendell, Massachusetts. As an experienced wildlife tracker, Paul is especially attuned to capturing subtle changes and nuances within the specific parameters of the places he thoughtfully wanders.