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Photography by Ira Gardner

Grass Studies

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Image of 4 four by eight panels featuring abstract photographic studies of grass.
I made these images at Slavin Conservation area in the spring of 2020.

This collection of images is inspired by a quote by Vincent Van Gogh:

“If we study Japanese art, then we see a man, undoubtedly wise and a philosopher and intelligent, who spends his time — on what? — studying the distance from the earth to the moon? — no; studying Bismarck’s politics? — no, he studies a single blade of grass.

But this blade of grass leads him to draw all the plants — then the seasons, the broad features of landscapes, finally animals, and then the human figure. He spends his life like that, and life is too short to do everything.Just think of that; isn’t it almost a new religion that these Japanese teach us, who are so simple and live in nature as if they themselves were flowers?And we wouldn’t be able to study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much happier and more cheerful, and it makes us return to nature, despite our education and our work in a world of convention.”

These prints are available in one of the following formats:

  1. 24″x48″  Museum Quality Archival Canvas 
  2. 15″x30″ Museum Quality Archival Canvas 
  3. 10″ x 20″ Fine Art Print  on German Etching Paper (11×14 Signature Print Series)
  4. 10×20 Platinum/Palladium Print on 310gsm Arches Platine  Paper
  • Image of 4 four by eight panels featuring abstract photographic studies of grass.
    Grass Studies
    $550.00 – $1,600.00
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