MARA ADAMITZ SCRUPE
These book projects investigate the feelings that familiar landscapes arouse
in people - a sense of home and family, and an intensification of
social identity through experiences and memories of place.
Specific books, like Up North and Flood Stage, speak of enduring connections
with specific landscapes, examining the ways in which designed and mediated
nature can engender a local, regional and even national outlook or mindset.
Other projects, like Nature Morte/Still Life and Collected Lichens are,
more simply, compendia and documentations of collected flora that
reflect on ethno-botany, environmentalism, species preservation, and the
human
footprint in the larger biotic community.
