Environmental Restitution (2026)
$10,005.00
Earth, air, fire, and creek: represented here not as subject matter, but as equals in the room. For too long we’ve treated the natural world as a backdrop; something to extract from, build on, and take for granted, instead of something to learn from, to commune with. This piece asks us to become students again: to listen to what the land, creek, and air have always been telling us, and to reconnect with a guidance we’ve forgotten how to follow.
These four boxes hold what was taken and what remains: rocks from the bed of Spring Creek; water from its current; a box left open to air; and a mark left by fire. What is owed here has no honest price. To pay this price is not to settle a debt, it is to acknowledge one.
Julia Redmon
Bella Vista, Arkansas
Mixed Media & Collage, Natural Materials / Found Objects
What is Spring Creek to you?
Water is the element that reaches out. It’s the one that beckons us to listen: the pitter-patter of rain on leaves, the trickle of a stream over stones, the meditative pull of a fountain in a garden. There’s a particular kind of relief in it too, the refreshment of stepping into a cold spring on a hot day, the way it wakes up your whole body at once. I see water, Spring Creek, as the outstretched hand for re-connection, one of the most accessible entry points to commune with the natural world.