Deconstructing colonial optics of African Americans is the first step in building an "oppositional black aesthetic." It can be a place where the imaged self and the imagined self are given space to breathe within the American landscape. These are meant to be the antitheses of the shared historical memory. 

In this circle of relationships, each element has much to give. The sun gives the greatest gift of all, life itself. The plants offer endless gifts, each with a role in a complex ecological web, offering us food, medicine and countless other gifts both tangible and intangible.

France Bukovsky became particularly interested in exploring where grief and joy color each other and the resulting complexity that arises.

Shauna Caldwell uses multimedia and photographic processes to honor land, familial connections, sacred relationships, and transformation.

Thompson harvests the power of the sun for his most recent self-portrait lumen series. This work comments on the nature of photography as a scientific process and the role it has played in reinforcing America’s racial caste system.

Solargrams capture and memorialize time as it passes. A reminder of the transience of life and the importance of our time on earth. 

Through material investigations with alternative processes, Anna Rotty explores inhabiting all our human multitudes and emotional experiences…

While considering the slow, almost invisible, changes happening around us, I began constructing landscapes to escape into within my apartment.

After years of mismanagement and neglect of farmland that has been in Norton’s family for generations, they are restoring 250 acres along the Ichawaynochaway Creek in Baker County, Georgia in an effort to promote biodiversity for a sustainable ecosystem.