As All Oaks Are One Oak

Airlie Oak, Wilmington NC 34.214169N 77.829330W
Green Man/Coalesce Study

Airlie Oak is a 500-year-old southern live oak located on the grounds of Airlie Gardens, in Wilmington, NC - perhaps the oldest and largest live oak in the state.

Coalesce features twenty Orange County-based artists: ten poets and ten visual artists.
Hosted by the Orange County Arts Commission at the Eno Arts Mill, selected artists are matched in pairs; each poet creating a poem based on a visual work by their partner, and each visual artist creating a work based on a poem.
The resulting exhibit in January 2024 at the Eno Arts Mill features twenty works of visual art paired with twenty poems.
I am honored to be selected as one of the visual artists, partnered with distinguished poet Jeffery Beam.
This work is a study for the images I considered submitting to Coalesce, inspired by the poem Jeffery Beam selected for me, excerpts from 'The Green Man's Man'