Nature, culture, conservation

A few years ago I wrote the catalog essay for a public art installation for The Art Guys — amusing Texas artists, whose worked I like, and who reached out to me to write something. It has since been taken off the internet, so I thought I’d repost. Here it is:

In the most benign of ways, nature preserves present a thesis about the meaning of time. In the cordoning off of Yosemite National Park, or the Betasso Preserve, which borders the city of Boulder, CO, one can discern the relationship between the ideas of God, truth, human free will and the natural world. What connects…