![]() Each piece is an attempt to fix and capture an intimate experience of this permeable boundary between the natural and the human.The Forbes Home editorial team is independent and objective. These works are informed by the slow, accumulated examination of the wild and domestic life on North Mountain in the Hot Springs National Park where I live and work. The show features animal, insect, and plant life that exists near humans, with both unfortunate and beneficial outcomes. Instead, nature is here, next door, underfoot, and within reach. In such spaces, natural and man-made get jumbled, and the thriving, living elements adapt and assert themselves, so that the notion of an inherently pure nature set aside and “out there” becomes eroded. The works in Nature Is a Haunted House focus on places where the wild and domestic get mingled: the rough edges of the suburban yard, urban animals in human-dominated spaces, the borders of wild parkland. Nature is a Haunted House is a series of installation works that incorporate painting, drawing, found objects, sculpture, insect and plant material, and decorative objects. Emily Dickinson (1876 letter to Thomas Higginson) “Nature is a Haunted House- but Art- a House that tries to be haunted.”
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