Installation at PATHS Trail

196 Allen Ave. Portland, ME

August 22 – September 20, 2026

 

Slow down and look closely. This installation invites a new view of nature. Take a moment to notice the intricate forms, textures, and structures that you might have otherwise missed.

 

Fifteen individual elements draw attention to selected details of trees, roots, flowers, and other natural forms.

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I have added locally foraged, harvested, or donated plant materials, creatively processed but still carrying traces of their original habitat. Each item frames and draws attention to details of the trail. Viewers are draw into novel interactions with familiar elements of nature. A root becomes a curve; bark becomes a surface; a flower becomes architecture. You see what you might have overlooked, with a shift in culture and scale.

 

The works and the site are intimately connected. Each item creates a relationship between the found and the fabricated, the temporary and the enduring. As the work decays it will become part of the landscape. Weather, insects, rot, and time become collaborators. The environment transforms the artwork. It gradually returns to a wild state.

 

Decay creates meaning. The installation invites meditation on the impermanent, transitory nature of life. All these elements will change and disappear as they grow, decline, and renew in natural processes. As time passes and the setting evolves, each viewer’s experience is different. What we see is inconstant. Beauty is present in the moment, even as everything continually changes.