Fifteen Preludes to Lyonia
Photographed 2009 - 2011
This body of work was created at the Lyonia Preserve in Deltona, Florida represents the romantic, lyrical, and abstract quality of The Lyonia Preserve landscape. It is a prelude to another portfolio Lyonia: A Florida Upland.
This portfolio represents the romantic, lyrical, and abstract quality of The Lyonia Preserve landscape.
This body of work was created at the Lyonia Preserve in Deltona, Florida. It is a prelude to another portfolio Lyonia: A Florida Upland.
The Lyonia Preserve located in Deltona, Florida is a 360-acre joint project of Volusia County's Land Acquisition and Management Division and the Volusia County School Board to restore and maintain a scrub habitat. Since 1994, restoration efforts have been made to remove overgrown sand pines and open up the understory, creating bare sand areas with low-growing vegetation preferred by scrub species.
Fifteen Preludes to Lyonia was created at the Lyonia Preserve during the same time period as the portfolio, Lyonia: A Florida Upland. Although both portfolios were shot at the same time and within the same landscape they each represent a different sense of what this habitat offers. On the one hand it can be romantic and abstract, while on the other hand it can be straightforward, harsh, and a bit daunting. Fifteen Preludes to Lyonia represents the romantic, lyrical, and abstract quality of this landscape.
“The austere landscape at Lyonia was almost a Zen-like experience, with it’s pure white sand and sparse vegetation.
At first I thought there was not a lot to photograph, because as a whole, it looked more forbidding than enticing. But the more I returned to it, the more I saw. I worked with the changing light, weather, and seasons and found beautiful details in small things when I looked closely.”