Step-by-step tutorial for creating a guide to local wetlands and preserves, offering text that may be inserted (definitions, reference books, precautions, and more) to make the process easier. An... More > associated web site automates and simplifies the process of creating the list of wetlands for the guide.< Less
During my California childhood, my family’s Spanish language and culture surrounded me, and I felt unlike other children in the context of a "superior" Anglo culture. Friends... More > commented that coming to my house was unlike visiting other homes. Now, when I’m in Spain or in other countries, I finally feel like an American, but uncomfortably so. This stay with family in Spain is about a recursive emotional path to learn about my family through this parallel family across the ocean, and, in so doing, to learn more about my own life and responses to it. I stayed long enough to enter their everyday life, and long enough to know the link of my past with their present. Now I have the memory of this time, the people, and the emotion. Sharing these images, and the story behind them, helps me to stabilize these memories, to unite them with new memories; my photographs are my emotional conduits to the experience. The visible evoking the invisible. (in English and Spanish)< Less
Reference guide with images of wetlands of Western New York, primarily Monroe County. Maps are associated with lists of wetlands, preserves and trails describing each location. An art book as well as... More > reference guide, includes 60 photographs and background information as well as poetry. Enhances enjoyment of local natural environment and encourages participation in stewardship of the land. Part of a larger project, 'WATERSHED: a community cares for its land,' which includes a traveling art exhibit, talks, and events.< Less
Art book and visual record of WATERSHED. Over 100 images of western New York wetlands illuminate the account of this breakthrough project.
"These places form a transitional bridge between... More > waterway and land. I am like them – melding boundaries, filtering all, mediating the deluge, in flux, ignored.
We have a bond, wetlands and me. They share their atmosphere with me, and I honor this bond by sharing their allure through images."< Less
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