Summer in the time of smoke, heat, and rain

2023 13 x 11.5 x .5 inches Edition of five with one Artist Proof. $900

Summer in Goshen, MA is a paradise; gardens, sounds of timbering and construction, birds nesting, and young animals wander across my field cameras. The summer of 2023 started with forest fires, smoke and air unfit to breath. Across North America a disjointed jet stream holds a heat doom stationary in the south and west while overwhelming New England in rain. The currents in the Atlantic Ocean are changing and scientists are in awe of the rapidness of the climatic catastrophe. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth is no longer a film to contemplate as climate change is happening faster than ever predicted.

What can I do? Try to garden harder, improve my pollinator gardens, remove invasive plants, educate my neighbors to native flora and fauna? Small hope and anger to cling to at a time when the climate roils and global leaders’ fiddle.

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. Ian Hamilton Finlay

Paper: Kyoseishi, Yatsuo, Kozo