A Year on the Mountain is a fine-art project, in the landscape and autobiographical self-portraiture genres, that tells the story of my connection to and interrelationship with the Rensselaer Plateau area that was my home for four years. It relates a deeply personal, diaristic, journey of "living into" the seasons and ecosystem while exploring the timely and universal themes of emplacement, nature-connection, and environmentalism. The body of work is intended to prompt the viewer to contemplate their own interrelationship with the ecosystem, eliciting a primal longing for rewilding and mutual nurturance by and for the earth. 

Each image is created to tell a self-contained story through use of symbolic elements of nature, landscape, and the artist. Combined, they are the individual threads woven into the larger tapestry of life on "my mountain" and ultimately of life on earth.

Images were created with a Nikon z7 mirrorless.