Casting Sticks

This series began a few winters ago when I started photographing twigs, branches, and other elements of nature lying on snow-covered ground.

Utilizing a digital process that mimics lith printing—an infectious development technique that intensifies the dark areas of an image to create high-contrast prints that resemble charcoal drawings— to create stark, monochromatic compositions.

Like tea leaves settling at the bottom of a cup or clouds drifting across the sky, the images suggest moods, feelings, or impulses that connect my personal reflections with the broader wisdom of nature.

I often wonder what my maternal grandmother, Jesse Scott Robinson, who claimed to have Romani blood and would read the fortunes of friends and family would make of these images and the stories they tell.