Natureweave

• Photographer
  Jennifer Pelzek, United States
• Website
  http://www.pelzek.com

"Through all my travels, seeing and gathering, taking photographs of tiny specks and grandiose panorama, collecting rocks, talking to people and animals along the way, I realized how simple life really can be in this crazy, fast-forward world. I often wonder where everyone is going in such a hurry.

There is such simplicity in exploring, wandering, and hearing your own footsteps again. In a world where we spend eight hours a day touching plastic and metal, bound to desks in gray cubicles and looking at a screen, I try to inspire in my work this curiousity, this connection to places, exposing a basic truth to the things, near or far, that surround us. "


Jennifer's most recent photographic series, Natureweave, has come from the last four years of travelling around the world, but initially while in South America for six months. While exploring a singular path of the high Andes to the low valleys, deserts and jungles, she discovered the small details, the huge magnificent landscapes and the realization that all of nature's patterns intertwined, losing the line where one begins and another ends. This presence of nature weaving in and out of itself became an abstract, pure, raw expression of color, texture and form.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a simple farm girl at heart, Jennifer grew up surrounded by nature, spending her days swimming, climbing trees, and chasing grasshoppers. She earned a bachelor's degree in photography and design from The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1993. Her work has been published in The New York Times, and exhibited in galleries in New York and Milwaukee.

She is currently publishing a book of her photographs and developing a line of products, Design Sacred, inspired by the small sacred corners of the world found during her travels.