LUMEN NATURAE BOOK ONE

Forest

Lumen naturae, the alchemical light of nature, was conceived as the light that penetrates human unconsciousness, a path of interiority revealing our deeper selves.  Being in nature, whether the deep green forest or the austere dry desert, holds the potential for this kind of inner illumination. In this first volume of a planned multi-volume set, a penetrating green dominates, the viriditas of Hildegard von Bingen. Photographed in the forested coastal region of northern Sonoma County, California, these forests are rebounding from successive clear cuts, graced from time to time by an abandoned fruit tree and other objects, suggesting an untold history.