When I completed the two-part Drawing with Nature Series here and here, I started to clean up the table in my studio where I had collected the flowers and grasses and leaves for over a year. My intention was to crush everything into dust and return it to the earth. As I started to do that, the beauty of the leftovers on top of the discarded drawings and paper with marks on them became more and more interesting and worthy of photographing. So I took a few pictures as I stood on a stepstool.

Wide Angle on Nature As It Turns to Dust 1 through 3 posted 5/25/23.

In the process of moving all this stuff around, dirt came loose, seeds departed from their shells, and leaves broke down. Something else was happening that I should have anticipated but did not until it began to happen. This material, this naturally spawned material, was turning to dust both from ageing and from being manually shifted across the table where it was presently living. This realization prompted a change in my perspective for this series as manifested in the title reworked from Wide Angle on Nature with the addition …As It Turns to Dust.

Wide Angle on Nature As It Turns to Dust 4 through 13 posted 5/31/23.

The final phase of the process of rendering my extra studio table bare somehow became a photographic performance piece. The sequence of photographs makes sense, but the following are not aspects of a time-lapse series. They simply are what I discovered and sometimes created. The table is finally clean.

Wide Angle on Nature As It Turns to Dust 14 through 37, last four separate from slide shows of two groups of ten posted 6/20/23.