Re-Imagining Eden - Field Trip

Re-imagining Eden is a multi-chaptered narrative about loss and change. Today, we are involved in a vast cultural shift where our direct experience of nature is being replaced by a virtual one. How this ultimately will affect our society’s attitudes towards nature and its resources is a question for our modern era. To make this dilemma visible, I photographed my child moving from youth to maturity in settings that portray her on-going experience with the landscape. The arc of her participation - from childlike fascination to wistful fantasy to disengagement - is a metaphor for society’s move away from identifying with nature and corresponds to our greater separation from the natural world. We are re-imagining Eden.