Margaret Stratton: WildFire Prophecies

Margaret Stratton was born in 1953 in Seattle, Washington. Her photography and video works have been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and three regional, National Endowment for the Arts Awards. These include National Endowment for the Arts Individual Award, New Genres, Washington D.C. (1995); and National Endowment for the Arts Individual Award, Photography, Washington DC, (190).

As the artist states on her website: “WildFire Prophecies is a series of photographs that document the blackened remains of forests after raging wildfires have decimated their ecosystems. These forests are home to threatened species: Sequoia and Redwood trees, ancient Douglas Fir, and Western Red Cedar. These trees are the keepers of time that thrive in old-growth forests. Old-growth forests embody slow time, a past made up of ancient trees and immovable glaciers. As wildlands vanish into ash, the structural legacies for old growth conditions are erased. Their scorched remnants embody the sublime.

• CAE1608: Sagehen Creek Field Station: Artists-in-Residence Program
• CAE2208: Michael & Heather Llewellyn: FOREST⇌FIRE