Sterling Nature Center's
Art & Nature Exhibition Wall
The Art & Nature Wall is one of the exciting new additions to the Sterling Nature Center, providing a space where local artists who are inspired by nature can showcase and sell their work. This rotating exhibit highlights art that celebrates the beauty of the natural world, featuring a variety of mediums from painting and photography to mixed media. By supporting these artists, we continue to foster a deeper connection between art and nature, inspiring creativity and appreciation for the environment.
If you're an artist interested in exhibiting your work, please contact us for more information!
The Abstracted Earth
Kyle Meddaugh
Artist Statement
From our normal vantage point, the natural world can appear chaotic, a series of organic accidents. From the nadir perspective, however, that chaos resolves into a precise, well-defined system of geometric logic. THE ABSTRACTED EARTH is a visual survey of the mathematical systems that reveal themselves in the Sterling and Fair Haven landscape, if you would only see it from these unnatural perspectives. By removing the horizon, the environment is reevisioned as a series of calculated events: the RECURSIVE FRACTAL patterns of a late-autumn creek, the PARALLEL ARRAY visible in winter float ice on Little Sodus Bay, and the SHADOW PROJECTION of Pond Hundred’s trees at golden hour. These images are not merely photographs of a place; they are visualizations of THE IMAGINARY COMPONENT. This collection invites the viewer to look past the "scenery" and observe the fragmented TESSELLATION and beautiful VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM of a world that functions with a quiet, geometric elegance. This is the landscape stripped of its familiarity, THE INTERFACE of an Earth abstracted into its most fundamental equations, which now appear in front of you.
