Aspen Meditations
This series showcases meditative photography portraits of the bark of aspen trees in winter, captured during a spiritual quest through the North American Southwest in a serene aspen grove located eighteen miles north of Flagstaff, AZ.
I do not know why I was drawn to the aspen. After over a decade in New York, I went to the desert on a sabbatical. One morning, I woke up with my face full of tears, and this continued every waking hour for a full month when I first encountered these trees while driving along US-180 in the snow-filled winter of 2006. Their presence that day, the experience of taking their portraits, and sitting lotus-like before the prints since then continue to invoke in me peacefulness, meditative states, spiritual awakenings, and ultimately a reconnection with nature.
I should also note that I knew nothing about aspen trees when I first encountered and photographed them during that challenging time in my life in the winter of 2006. I knew nothing about them when I took these portraits in the same grove in the winter of 2015 while traveling through the American Southwest. I knew nothing of aspen trees this morning when I uploaded the photos in the summer of 2023.
I just found out aspen trees live for over a hundred years, while their interwoven root systems, all connected to a single parent tree, can live for up to ten thousand years. The oldest aspen tree colony, named Pando, has lived for eighty thousand years in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. An aspen colony as old as our species.
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PRINT INFO
Series Title: Aspen Meditations
Year: 2015
Medium: Photography
Media: Archival Pigment Print
(Dye Sublimation Aluminum Print available for some sizes upon request)
Each artwork in the Aspen Meditations series is offered in two sizes, with rare editions for each.
Size One - Print Only
Image Size: 16 x 20 in - 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Sheet Size: 17 x 22 in - 43.2 x 55.8 cm
Edition of 5
Size Two - Print Only
Image Size: 75 x 60 in - 190.5 x 152.4 cm
Sheet Size: 78 x 63 in -198.1 x 160 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 Artist's Proof
(Artist's Proof is not available for sale)
A few works are available in a single, much larger size—please refer to the description of each artwork for size variations.
Explore the tabs under each artwork for details on FREE SHIPPING, EDITIONS, our RETURN POLICY, and precise FRAMING measurements.
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CONTACT
For inquiries about the Aspen Meditations series, you can reach me at:
Email: marco@ma9.co
Tel: +1 347-772-9370 (New York City)
One
transfiguration
what you seek is seeking you
at the edge of self
lina's ecstasy
a journey within
awakening
walkabout
worthy of light
sage of an unwavering mind
morphogenesis
A Leap into The Void
horizon nine
cathedral
paths
epiphanies at the edge of reason
In a Stream of Consciousness
bodhisattva Vimalakīrti
metamorphoses
Satori
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