The Northwoods Lakeshore 

The Reflections collection depicts the Minnesota Northwoods lakeshore, abundant in its power to gather and collect. For 100 years, my family has convened at cabins in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (and 10,000 cousins); my daughter is the sixth generation to spend her summers at our family cabin, sharing stories and building on a lakeside heritage. We visit aunts, uncles and cousins across the Boundary Waters, traveling by boat from cabin to cabin and memory to memory, wrapped in rain and comfort, the lakeshore ecotone as the gathering point. The water’s edge is the great connector, a balm to the tension and profound polarization of today’s world. It’s a tangible, analog place of kinship, one of respite from our fast-paced, digital ecosystem; the parting of the dense forest is a place to get your bearings, study the sky and allow your eyes to travel along the horizon to meet the gaze of folks from years past. Like the local flora and fauna, we gather to greet each other and the vista at the water’s edge.

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