PLACE: Ash Meadows

Today Ash Meadows is a small state park east of California’s Mojave desert. At its heart are the crystal pure springs that for thousands of years supported branches of the Western Shoshone people. Here, around the pools and small streams, the Native Americans cultivated small fields of corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers irrigated with the spring water. Ash meadows is also the place of the Shoshone’s “Origin of People” myth, a fertility myth that uses it’s source these incredibly clear, cool waters.

Along with Ash Meadows, in this contemporary fine art folio are abstractions taken along the shores of Hawaii. These photographs show places where Native Hawaiians would harvest edible seaweed or “Limu” which grows in the tidal zone along the coral reefs and lava stone. In these photographs the intersection of Limu and shore create painterly imagery that become abstractions of landscape.

Ash Meadows Reeds Two, Square

Ash Meadows Reeds One

Limu at Refuge One

Limu at Refuge Two

Coral Moss Right

Coral Moss Left

Ash Meadows Reeds Two