Stump House; Direct Line to Nature

by Joshua Phelps

Joshua H. Phelps explores the interplay between humanity and nature through a combination of sly wit and irony delivered via photography. To wit, humanity has employed natural resources for millennia. Originally for survival, as culture developed, so too did the depth of our relationship to nature. Things became more than themselves, symbols of magic, power, myth, and maps of the known world. At times serious, this ambiguity can also extend into the realm of kitsch and even the lines in a parking lot. At a time when humanity's relationship to nature feels all the more precarious, perhaps it is time to step back for a moment and examine the rules of the game which we have been playing all this time.