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This collage is made from hundreds of photographs taken in the Smokey Mountains and along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Tennessee and North Carolina. Organic and geometrical shapes overlap to create a visual playground full of texture. This collage contains hidden messages amongst the mess of moss, lichen, and fungus. It is surrounded by a frame made of preserved moss.


Detail of Smokey Mosscape containing hidden message "LOVE is LIGHT"

Detail of Smokey Mosscape the containing part of hidden quote:
"It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." (Quote from Alan Watts)

Close up detail of Smokey Mosscape containing hidden message:
"Do you ever find yourself staring at the sky... wondering why we are endlessly rotating on this celestial body?"

Detail of Smokey Mosscape containing hidden message:
"What is time to you?"

Detail of Smokey Mosscape containing hidden message:
"How many trail must a snail trail his tail before it finds what it seeks?"