Photographer Laura McPhee: Understanding the Language of a Place

Laura McPhee photographs: The River of No Return Laura McPhee made these remarkable photographs over several years on successive visits to the Sawtooth Valley. River of No Return is organized like a long poem or a piece of music…a stunning look at an actual place, a meditation on rivers, nature, history, the history of landscape…

Is a Leaf Like a Noun

Is a Leaf Like a Noun, Flowing like a Verb? “Elements of landscape language are like parts of speech, each with separate functions and associations. Flowing, like a verb, is a pattern of events expressed in both water and path. Water and path, like nouns, are action’s agents and objects; like adjectives or adverbs, their…

Tea Party Flying the Confederate Flag

Wrapping themselves in their patriotism, the Tea Party folks wave a rebel flag while protesting shutdown of the government they wanted shut down. What is it called when you take your ball and go home and then go back to the playing field and complain there’s no game? The past is never dead. It’s not…