The sea or the snow?  The sea or the snow.  Mr. F and I go back and forth on this question frequently.  While spending the winter in Idaho, we decided on snow.  But now that we are on the Northern California coast, I wonder, will the tides turn back toward the sea?  There is something wild and mysterious about the ocean, and Massachusetts artist Jeremy Miranda captures the struggle by man to understand and control the uncontrollable character of nature.

We move in to the wild places, we build our houses and cultivate lawns and gardens, we want to be surrounded by nature’s beauty yet when the elements go about their way with no regard for us, we resent it.  We try to control it.  To bend and shift nature’s way to meet our own needs instead of leaving it to its own perfectly evolved devices.  Miranda’s work captures that intrusion of man on wild, not only the destruction and encapsulation that ensues, but the way that nature reclaims what is hers when man moves on.

To see more of Jeremy Miranda‘s work, please visit his website.

All images via the artist’s website.