LISA MOSSEL VIETZE (Appleton, ME)

I picked up a camera in 1998 with the intention of making large landscape images full of space with grand, far-off vistas, where I could hope to escape from childhood misery. But what my images came to reveal, is the power of the intimacy of smaller landscapes, like that of a flower, or the way light moves on water. I found my camera diving more and more into the worlds of flowers. I stopped chasing the horizon and began to search in my own backyard.

I seek flowers in their most natural, most ideal moments and am often in awe of their color, design, or expression of form when I’m in their company. I approach flowers much like I would approach a person while making a portrait.

"As the consciousness of human beings developed, flowers were most likely the first thing they came to value that had no utilitarian purpose for them. Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature" (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth).

Represented by:
North Light Gallery (Millinocket) | Archipelago (Rockland)