Botanical Dances

Photographs by Huntington Witherill.

LensWork Publishing, Anacortes, 2001. 104 pp., 40 tritone illustrations, 12¼x10¾".

"As a body of work, Huntington Witherill's botanical photographs are inventive, evocative, and charged with visual explorations. Although precedents can be seen in his previous work, the images portrayed within Botanical Dances represent a departure from Witherill's earlier approach of working on location in the landscape. Witherill placed source materials-flowers, ferns and other plants, both pressed by himself and obtained from others-against backgrounds of drawn, painted and textured surfaces of paper and stone, again, both self-created and obtained from other artists. His strategy was to combine plant forms with abstract fields to arrive at a new textural unity as well as a sensitive and often witty figurative expression."-the publisher.