Can You See the Forest Through the Trees?

by Terrance DePietro

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Can You See the Forest Through the Trees?

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Terrance DePietro

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Digital Art - Photography

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Too soft to hold a forest, the reeds and marshy grass mark off their territory, and a wetland forms - with small help from the woodsy inhabitants most likely. A beaver smells potential, it would seem; and with not much effort, soon enough what once flowed can be stilled.

Soon the stand of trees that pepper the field of weed will all sink, sag and tumble; the murk that will gather will nurture many sort of wetland growth but no forest will rise up... Except that by some unforeseen circumstance the now stilled waters, again gain their measured flow and the land absorbs all other - Nature is a fickle condition at best!

I have made much clamor about 'The Lull Season', between autumn and winter - when the leaves are all down and the snow still waits its turn - and used the wetlands motifs to example many processes.

That late November and early December is low season by most accounts: but I never could understand it! It is 'The' season for the would-be creative enthusiast because Nature is disrobed of all spangle and frill, visible and discernible at every crease, crevasse; highland or lowland imaginable.

And in the silent and static of our two-dimensional world, our images stretch far back to the forest's edge - passing the thin veil of morning frost on still water; reflected silhouettes of tall, twig-like trees; more ice ambiguously reflecting the like and colors of fall reeds; beyond are fields of frail weeds glowing in their dryness, as discrete, solitary trees accumulate into what most assuredly is the forest's edge - How many stories could you spin with such a vision?

17oct20 - tdp
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October 17th, 2020

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