Crawl is the beginning of my ongoing investigation into a part of our landscape we, as upright creatures, rarely take the time to think about. Infants know this world for a time. Picnickers and soldiers glimpse it. There is no more dynamic stage of life and death on earth than the first few inches above its surface. This is where prairies and forests are born. Here is where the bulk of our food comes from, and where all terrestrial creatures return when we die. Comforting, beautiful, frightening, strange–this is the terrestrial world. And it can only be discovered and known intimately on hands and knees.

I really like Sally Gall’s photographs of insects. They’re unlike the typical macro photograph of a bug that is seen so often. They feel as though they are biographical or “a day in the life of…”.

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