In this work the concept of exposure to nature is visualized quite literally, also that of immersion. Traveling to the 4 cardinal points of the contiguous United States, these images were formed by casting hand-coated Sumi ink cliché verre “negatives” into bodies of water, their natural forces becoming the guiding hand and their own formal language. Traveling with these materials in a van, markings on coated mylar rendered each unique image as a product of the elements; water, earth, wind and sunlight. Truly a collaboration with nature, these images record connection; place and time, chance and pattern.