Seeing is an art. Simply seeing nature as it presents itself - remaining open to the mysteries it reveals - is a magical experience.

I used a macro lens to parallel my sense of being in the physical presence of what I saw, though at times the images were more detailed and clearer than my natural sight.

I employed Franz Perl's psychological concept of cathexis -- intense, emotional fixation on what is perceived as important to the exclusion of all else -- in a visual metaphore to describe my preoccupations with what I experienced in the garden. I believe this kind of study teaches a photographer to understand and document what is relevant in the most personal and substantive way.

Victoria Boardman
Rumson, NJ, 2003

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