The Secret Life of Plants
Bonsai Ballet
Each piece stages a tree in motion: leaning, bowing, reaching. Fence posts echo the ballet barre, grounding these quiet dancers in shifting light.
This is not a landscape. It’s a duet between gravity and grace.
Inspired by the emotional discipline of bonsai and the poetics of ambiguity, the series invites open interpretation. Meadow or water? Mourning or admiration? Each composition resists resolution, offering movement instead of meaning.
What begins as stillness becomes a ballet of memory.
Photographed at the Japanese Garden in St. Paul’s Como Park, these trees were not specimens but performers—poised, expressive, and quietly defiant.
For the full libretto and origin story, see “Bonsai” in the Conversations section.
*Welcome to a desert archive where nothing is quite as still as it seems. These are not botanical studies. They are portraits. Vignettes. Moments of character and choice.
Each plant—agave, cactus, or otherwise—has been cast not as specimen, but as protagonist. They endure, bloom, wait, and occasionally gossip.
Narrated in the voice of Sir David Attenborough (with a neat scotch and a fondness for understatement), this series invites you to witness the emotional architecture of desert life: survival without spectacle, fulfillment without fanfare, freedom without escape.
What follows is a collection of quiet dramas and dry humor, staged in sand and shadow.
No spoilers. But let’s just say: the agaves have impeccable timing.
