ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This unusually formed tree near the 12th Century Fountains Abbey may be hundreds of years old - or so it seemed. It projects a ancient, wise, and quiet dignity as an old man posing fo a formal portrait.

AUTHOR
Love of architecture was the impetus for picking up the camera in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. in 1991 I migrated west. to greater Los Angeles. Southern California is an insane multiverse of the unfinished, the grand, the decayed and the beautiful - using "beautiful" in the broadest sense imaginable. As an urban explorer, arts advocate and architecture fiend, I love to find images in the environment that startle, move and perplex me. Although I practice photocollage often, when a striking image sticks with me it is often a building, a tree or the conflation of open land and urbanscape. It can also be an accidental abstraction - something quite mundane that ends up looking like mid-20th century abstract expressionism; very satisfying when that happens.

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