Meeting Place

If I asked you to imagine a chair at the water's edge, you would probably see in your mind's eye an iconic image: an Adirondack chair, perhaps on a dock in front of a lake at sunset.  There may be a table beside it with a glass of wine.  It is all at once idyllic, beguiling and deceiving.  We are drawn to it as a place to unwind, turn off, stop thinking and just feel.  One day, as I contemplated the urgency of our water crisis, I decided to create an image of a chair at the water's edge.  But this time I took the iconic Adirondack chair and partially sank it in a marsh.  That was the beginning of this series.   The images here stand as an invitation to stop at the place where earth and water meet, not to turn off and unwind, but to contemplate and meditate on the boundaries that separate us emotionally and materially from the liquid dream of lakes and rivers, and to consider the porous earth through which water continually seeps into the channels and bowls of the watershed.  We need to actively seek out a new relationship with our waterways and lakes, which are stressed nearly to the breaking point.