Earth and Vine


  • Photographer
    Joe Reynolds
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2012
  • Technical Info
    Silver Gelatin Print

These photographs describe the kudzu and wisteria vines that grow near my home in Tennessee. Virtually impossible to remove, these non-native plants have become a permanent part of the landscape, altering it into a wholly new body. However, it is in the winter months, when the leaves have dried and fallen and skeletal stalks remain, that the transparency of the vines reveals the earth below. Here the tenuous relationship between earth and vine hints at the hope that the land will overcome. The land struggles to accept these plants and to understand the now inseparable nature of vine and earth.

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