Notice. Reflect. Return.
Present to Beauty is a place to slow down, notice, reflect, and return. Here you’ll encounter close-up nature photographs, reflective prose, and noticing practices that explore the subtle beauty and quiet mysteries
of the natural world.
of the natural world.
CUrrent Perspective: Winter Holding
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During the winter months, being present to beauty means attending to the stillness of bare branches, the subtle shifts in light across a snowy landscape, the textures and colors that might otherwise go unseen.
Let these small details guide your attention and remind you that the subtle holds the slow rhythm of the Winter season. This Winter, I invite you to practice stillness, restraint, and quiet focus. Consider these guiding questions: |
What does it mean to slow down?
Where do you find reverence in the subtle?
What focus are the shortened days asking of you?
Where do you find reverence in the subtle?
What focus are the shortened days asking of you?
UpComing Work: The Preserve
The Preserve will be a cumulative body of work rooted in repeated return to a specific place. It will gather close-up nature photography, observational prose, and reflective practice into a public, enduring record of relationship with land.
The Preserve will live here. It is designed to remain intact over time and grow through gentle return rather than continuous expansion.
The starting place for this practice will be The Lost Creek Hiking Trail in Chatfield, MN.
The Preserve will live here. It is designed to remain intact over time and grow through gentle return rather than continuous expansion.
The starting place for this practice will be The Lost Creek Hiking Trail in Chatfield, MN.
All projects hold these guiding values:
Relationship reminds us nature is alive, responsive, and worthy of respect.
Reciprocity reminds us to give back to the land just as we receive.
Restoration reminds us our connection to land is reciprocal and rhythmic.
Reverence reminds us to be moved by what we sense where we stand.
Ritual reminds us to show up, again and again, to the present moment.
These are the values that remind us how to practice being
Present to Beauty.
Relationship reminds us nature is alive, responsive, and worthy of respect.
Reciprocity reminds us to give back to the land just as we receive.
Restoration reminds us our connection to land is reciprocal and rhythmic.
Reverence reminds us to be moved by what we sense where we stand.
Ritual reminds us to show up, again and again, to the present moment.
These are the values that remind us how to practice being
Present to Beauty.
And they are explored through simple noticing practices and repeated visits to local places over time, which are documented through short, observational reflections in place portals.
