Art at the wetlands

What do you think of when you visit the wetlands?

Do you think of a beautiful space, where it is lovely to spend time and is full of native flora and fauna?

Do you look around you and notice the tui singing in the trees, the kahu soaring overhead, the bees buzzing around?

Do you see the world in miniature, the tiny insects living in a tiny ecosystem of moss on fallen logs, lichen clinging to tree trunks and scattered over stones and windfall branches?

Do you stop to take it all in, look around you, see, hear, feel and smell the world of the wetlands?

Looking around, sometimes it seems as though there is an intentional art trail set throughout the wetlands…not the art of humans painting on canvas or sculpting creations from clay. Nor the art of photography even, focusing in on the hidden and unseen worlds that march along while we’re living our human-sized lives.

The art you can see if you stop and look is the art of nature, all around us. The art of gradients of green flung throughout the wetlands; the art of fungi clinging to a fallen log; the art of stones slick with wet and plastered with dead leaves.

Do you see the art of nature when you visit the wetlands? What do you see?