A Clearing

When I walk in nature with a camera, I am often drawn to certain forms before I understand why: a shadow, a tangle, a break in the light, a surface, a repeated shape. I follow that pull without trying to explain it.

Later, when I look closely at the images, I can often see what was on my mind before I had words for it.

This project is about attention as a form of pre-verbal knowing. The mind is always selecting, filtering, and assigning significance, but not all of that happens consciously. The camera gives me a record of those choices.