The Preserve
Present to Beauty's The Preserve is a creative project that arose out of a desire to build a relationship with SE Minnesota's Bluff Country.
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The Preserve projects are about developing a long-term relationship with a specific place. The trails and ecosystems become creative partners.
Reciprocity is practiced through care and restraint. This is not an accumulation of adventures, but an exchange of attention. Across seasons and transitions, this focus restores steadiness. Presence outweighs productivity and creativity follows nature’s rhythms. Depth-of-seeing matters more than surface-level perfection. Return and ritual shape the work, and sustained practice becomes belonging. The Preserve is a place of creative continuity rooted in a love of nature. |
The Preserve projects are intended to be quiet, place-based noticing experiences that encourage:
Currently, The Preserve is taking place at The Lost Creek Hiking Trail in Chatfield, MN. The Lost Creek Preserve creative archive is viewable now and continues to grow with each reflection and photograph.
- Walking purposefully through the landscape
- Attending to light, sound, and small details
- Photographing what draws attention
- Reflecting on observations
- Contributing to the archive
Currently, The Preserve is taking place at The Lost Creek Hiking Trail in Chatfield, MN. The Lost Creek Preserve creative archive is viewable now and continues to grow with each reflection and photograph.
Present Perspective: Engaging Summer
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During this summer season, the work here is about active engagement, creative participation, and responding to the living world around us.
With the turning of the seasons at the Summer Solstice, there comes an invitation to enter into relationship with the landscape's fullness. The Lost Creek Hiking Trail offers an opportunity for attending to Summer's abundance in Bluff Country. Notice nature's interactions. Watch grasses dancing in the wind. Follow the flow of water through the landscape. Look for patterns that connect living forms. Attend to places where the land responds and adapts. These living relationships remind us that Summer's fullness is revealed through participation, presence, and response. |
An Invitation
Consider how what you encounter in The Lost Creek Preserve might become part of your personal rhythm.
Walk with one intention?
Return to a practice consistently over time?
Try a new perspective each visit?
Return to a practice consistently over time?
Try a new perspective each visit?