The Naturalist

This title is derived from Seamus Heaney’s two-stanza poem, Death of a Naturalist (1966). My work draws from the first stanza in which the child encounters the natural world with openness and curiosity. The list of adjectives in the right panel is adapted from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ rhapsodic poem, Pied Beauty (1877).

The Naturalist was produced at Dieu Donné, the leading organization for hand paper making in the US. Click here to see the work being made: https://vimeo.com/944945073