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.

While living on a remote Montana ranch bordered by mountains and forest, shared with top apex predators including grizzly bears, Lauren Grabelle created wildly poetic images that focus on the harsh forces of nature and their relationship with humankind. Here, she gains a new understanding of birth, life, flight, death, and the transitions in between.

Casey Visco’s photographs remind us to slow down and celebrate the very small and very common things in nature that we often overlook.

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. 

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.