THE NIGHT SKY
The dark sky is more than a backdrop; it’s a living map of our place in the world, a reminder of what we lose when artificial light washes the stars away. Out here, where the night is still allowed to be night, the Milky Way rises like a river of fire, and the constellations return with the same clarity our ancestors once knew. This gallery is a tribute to that fragile brilliance — a call to protect the silence above us, and a reminder that when we let the darkness fade, we lose far more than we realize.
BREATH OF THE NORTH
A bare branch stretches into the open dark, delicate as ink against the northern sky. Behind it, the moon burns softly—cold and steady—while the aurora gathers low on the horizon in faint green and violet hush.
A thin veil of cloud drifts through the light like breath, turning the heavens into something alive, something moving. The forest remains unseen, but not absent. It is there in the silhouette—quiet, patient, listening.
In the Boundary Waters, even the smallest thing can feel immense:one branch, one night, one moment held between moonfire and the slow, silent dance of the stars.
DESERT ECLIPSE
The sky burned sideways—half sun, half shadow—as if the world couldn’t decide which way to turn. Wind whispered through thorn and stone, and even the scorpions stayed still. Under the eclipse, everything felt ancient and unfinished, like a story waiting to be told or erased.
He hadn’t seen another soul in three days. Just dust, bones, and the slow hiss of heat. He drank sparingly, walked carefully, and waited for a sign that he was still meant to be alive. Then the light shifted—unnatural, unholy—and the dead tree ahead of him lit up like a signal fire.
Maybe it was warning. Maybe it was welcome. Either way, he moved toward it.
the Gravel pit
The sky burned sideways—half sun, half shadow—as if the world couldn’t decide which way to turn. Wind whispered through thorn and stone, and even the scorpions stayed still. Under the eclipse, everything felt ancient and unfinished, like a story waiting to be told or erased.
He hadn’t seen another soul in three days. Just dust, bones, and the slow hiss of heat. He drank sparingly, walked carefully, and waited for a sign that he was still meant to be alive. Then the light shifted—unnatural, unholy—and the dead tree ahead of him lit up like a signal fire.
Maybe it was warning. Maybe it was welcome. Either way, he moved toward it.
KATRINA’S CHAIR
Beneath a sky freckled with stars, the old chair stands like a ghost of autumn past—weathered wood leaning against time, surrounded by a bed of crimson leaves. Once, it might have sat on a warm porch, holding quiet conversations and summer afternoons. Now it rests alone in the chill night air, its story fading into starlight while the forest listens in silence.