Nature’s Lens: Anticipation

What happens when we amplify what’s easily overlooked? Nature’s Lens: Anticipation takes the small, easily overlooked Arthropodium strictum or Chocolate Lily —a native wildflower of smaller stature—and magnifies its visual presence. Through layers of cardboard and thread, the work seeks not to imitate the plant, but to give its subtle existence a larger stage.

In doing so, the artwork becomes both homage and provocation. If the Chocolate Lily were impossible to ignore—if its violet blooms demanded our attention—would our sense of value shift? Would we tread differently, look closer, consider our environment from a new angle?

This work invites deeper engagement with the natural environment by questioning our hierarchies of attention. The overlooked becomes a herald for consideration. By amplifying the small, we are reminded that care begins in observation—and that conservation starts not in grand gestures, but in noticing what quietly endures beneath our feet.