P O E T R Y O F B O N E S
GENTLE GIANTS
A Fine Art photographic series that bears witness to the poetic surrender of the graceful behemoths who once stood regal, steadfast, and tall. These images form a visual elegy for the drowned coastal maritime forests of the southeastern barrier islands. Like grand sculptures scattered along the seashore, the tides flow through their pale, skeletal branches as though memory has taken on the texture of water. These poetic ghost forests anointed by the sea are a breathtaking reminder of the fragility and mercurial nature of the coastal landscape.
They have stood before the sea, holding its many secrets
WHILE COASTAL WINDS SWIRLED WHISPERS THROUGH THEIR TANGLED MASSES.
Wandering amongst their burnished, sun-bleached bodies, like leviathans heaved upon the shores,
FEELS AS THOUGH ONE IS COMMUNING WITH FALLEN PREHISTORIC GIANTS LYING IN QUIET REPOSE.
To stand among them is to feel all at once
THE WORLD’S VASTNESS AS WELL AS ITS FRAGILITY.
A POETIC STORY OF RESILIENCE:
these relentlessly battered, solemn bones remain with steadfast grace, relics of enduring strength.