Awakening into a Dream

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It brought great joy to me to be able to return to Lakeside Labs. The evening I arrived I already sat down and did a little sketch of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, which in the morning I encountered the first one I had seen of the season which is included in the photos below. I felt as though I had awakened into a dream and that is the best way to describe the rest of my time at Lakeside.

During the first week, I mostly focused on photography and becoming reacquainted with the grounds of the area. I went to Silver Lake Fen and was very inspired by what I called “tears in the earth” I started work naturally dying a canvas with stinging nettles. I enjoyed playing with this process, the stinging nettles stung my fingers when I harvested them and then I in turn smashed them to dye the canvas. A different kind of amensalism (a relationship between creatures where one creature benefits while the other is harmed), but instead both parties experienced discomfort during this experiment.

“Artists and scientists are both asking questions about the world, they’re just doing it in different ways”
Alex Braidwood
Director, Iowa Lakeside Lab Artists-in-Residence Program

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