Between Trees — Ossabaw Island, John Gholson

31°47′40″N · 81°6′44″W · Ossabaw Island, Georgia

BETWEEN TREES

Film Photography — Ossabaw Hammock

Medium Film Photography
Location Ossabaw Island, Georgia
Artist John Gholson
Period circa 2008–2013

Spanish moss is not parasitic — it takes nothing from the tree. It is an epiphyte, gathering moisture and nutrients from the air itself. It is simply there, draped and grey-green, moving in salt air, turning a grove of ordinary palms and oaks into something ancient. Looking through these silhouetted trees at the marsh beyond is the view the island offers as its greeting. The layers of depth here — near dark, far pale — are the grammar of this particular landscape.

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