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©Dana Patterson Roth
Smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis)
Digital Photograph
©Dana Patterson Roth
Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
Digital Photograph
©Dana Paterson Roth
Indiangrass #1 (Sorghastrum nutans)
Digital Photograph
©Dana Patterson Roth
Hordeum jubatum #2 (Foxtail barley)
Digital Photograph
©Dana Patterson Roth
Feather fingergrass (Chloris Virgata)
Digital Photograph
©Dana Patterson Roth
Bromus marginatus #1 (Mountains brome)
Digital Photograph
©Dana Patterson Roth
Boutelous gracilis #4 (Blue grama)
Digital Photograph
©Dana Patterson Roth
Bouteloua curtipendula #2 (Side oats grama)
Digital Photograph
Dana Patterson Roth
Bio and Artist's Statement
I have spent a lifetime of adventure in New Mexico, where I have raised
children, ridden horses, raced sailboats, hiked, camped and helped my
husband in building our own homes. I have studied photography and
painting at UNM, as well as other venues. I have been a photographer
for over 30 years, initially specializing in B&W portraiture and event
photography, but in recent years I have focused solely on fine art
photography, particularly botanicals and landscapes
For me photography has always been an adventure—both an adventure
out into the world and an adventure into myself. My fascination with the
visual world of light, color, texture and mood propels me to try to convey
to others the beauty as I see it within a fleeting moment, a passing
shadow or a trembling leaf.
Current work:
As an outdoors person I have spent many years mesmerized by the
beauty of grasses as they sway in the breeze, moving like dancers to an
unpredictable beat. As I sought to capture the motion, I became
increasingly aware of their sculptural beauty, not unlike the sculptural
beauty of a dancer's body, at rest or posed. This work is the result of
these two ideas coming together: grasses nature, dancing to their
muses of the wind and the light, and grasses in studio, paused to exhibit
the subtle beauty of their structure and details.
