ROBIN RESCH

In my landscape photography I seek to explore the power of nature and the duality of its ephemerality and continuum. Sometimes, it is the force of nature, a crashing stream, rolling fog, and rushing wind that alters and abstracts the object of the picture; sometimes, I intentionally blur the focus, abstracting the landscape in order to evoke the emotive experience of the fleeting moment, that of the landscape as we pass through it -- an analogy to the fleeting nature of our own lives and the vulnerability of our planet. Ephemerality and continuum. Stasis and flow. The ability to renew. That is what I seek to convey with these images taken from across the country. The solid, rooted strength of a towering redwood tree against the roaring rush of the Big Sur river, swollen by rain. The irreverent humor of a random cactus in a sea of sand carved by the wind. The deep rich strata of an abandoned iron mine’s intense geologic beauty, laid bare by man’s greed. The mesmerizing bright green new growth over the charred hills of Malibu where former driveways have become verdant folds in the landscape. There is sadness and there is hope. Destruction and renewal. My aunt once confided to me that she wants her epitaph to read “Nature always wins.” I sincerely hope she is right. For our collective irreplaceable is, without doubt, our planet.