"When the Trees Sing" is an exploration and imaginative journey of what Barbara Dombach envisions the forest is saying to her by listening intently to the sounds of the forest.

Julie Williams Dixon made these image one afternoon as she waded in an ancient river, a body of water. Here, she sunned her body on ancient stones and pondered the transience of her physical body in juxtaposition to ancient surroundings. Playing with scale and abstraction, she explored the space between transience and eternity.

In this project, Kaye Savage offers a new opportunity to exist to Bloodroot plants destroyed by Hurricane Helene. After intended long-term observation sites became inaccessible, she placed previously made photographs of the plant in new environments. The plant Bodies photographed exist now only in our imagination and archives.

In this portfolio, Gretchen LeMaistre returns to the same sites along the Swannanoa River in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in an attempt to share the visceral reaction she has experienced in this place. While the photographs convey only a fraction of experience, she hopes they can function as tokens for conversation, connection and witness with one another and with the world at large.

Valery Lyman has been fascinated by the utility lines in Cambridge for years. What impresses her is the chaos. While everything else in the city is so quaint, controlled, manicured, and rich, right above the tree line are the ones that got away. For Valery, these are the only wild organisms left in Cambridge.

Through Chris Warner-Carey’s photographs the viewer is invited to imagine and contemplate what is just out of conscious sight in the shadows and mist, always with the understanding that there are forces and presences that resist logical analysis, and will remain unknowable by the human mind alone.