"The inspiration for this body of work found its beginnings while I was fortunate to spend a Morris Graves Foundation Residency at The Lake in northern California in 2011....It was easy to concentrate on a group of plants and began witnessing the cycle from a young green stem growing into a robust maturity, finally transitioning into its final stage as its sleek lines shriveled and achieved a proud baroque character...A single tree could be observed many times, revealing a different landscape in the intricacies of its bark and branches at each perspective..." Keith Achepohl "Vision of Nature|Vessel of Beauty" published by Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 2011