David Wolf: Nurturing Time

Life in a backyard garden

San Francisco-based David Wolf, an unexpected gardener, submitted this series “exploring how we shape and control nature even as we nurture it” and called to mind two of my favourite books, Michael Pollan’s ‘The Botany of Desire’ and ‘Second Nature’, both about our relationship to and influence on the natural world.

“Beyond typology, ‘Nurturing Time’ offers us the richness of the garden and illuminates our connection to it. The assembled flower boxes resonate with a range of emotion, reflecting our own experience of the cycle of life that embraces vitality and decay, abundance and loss. Memory, Time’s shadow, is present here, too, as events and lives are evoked and memorialized by these images.” – David Wolf

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