Are you a nature lover? It's ok if you don't, not every person is a lover of the great outdoors. The reality we all share is we can't live without it. Some appreciate and love being outdoors. Others just go about their day not giving it much thought as they walk from the car to their house. We're all in it to some degree every single day. Even in landscaped cities, the sun shines on all just as the rain falls. Nature supports all life without preference to human beliefs and ideologies. Nature is bountiful, beautiful and can also be treacherous. Nature is a survivor and can survive and thrive without us. We cannot survive or thrive without nature. We need clean air, water, healthy soil and thriving ecosystems. After missing several growing seasons, I picked up gardening again this year. The urge to embrace slow living practices (i.e. doing a lot of things like our grandparents did) has been growing in me for awhile now. Fermenting veg...
I believe poetry is a visual force. Instead of a paintbrush or a stylus, I use my words to arrange pixels- translating the rhythm of my verse into the language of light and shadow. Each image is a symbiotic vision, born from my stanzas and realized through the lens of AI. This is a human and AI collaboration. All the words are from my quill. All the images created with AI- a process called synthography. On rare occasions, I use photos from my camera roll.