Regeneration I

This Ultrachrome digital fine art print is based off an original mixed-media piece, “Regeneration I,” sprung from struggling with the reality of a barren landscape after a horrendous experience with a wildly unethical landscape designer and her contractor. I visualized a dream garden and five years later the image has been realized with determination and compost, and now the fiasco is a distant memory. This piece also features one of my favorite Pablo Neruda poems — Some Beasts —and some old architectural plans. It’s about regeneration of the spirit and of the garden. Frogs have similar associations across a wide variety of cultures. They are paired with renewal, the moon and rain. I spent many childhood days collecting and releasing them. 2009