I'm not interested in intellectual constructs in art; everything for me starts with nature and ends up with nature. My job is to observe and record, that's it. Labels and semantic constructs bind the mind into knots, away from pure seeing. I'm not interested in manmade constructs or labels. Cycles in nature reflect our own strengths and weaknesses in our own daily existence. Personal power of place comes with understanding the deeper truths of our natural environment. Our greatest teacher is the natural environment itself.