Homestead Series

This series tracks the decay process of an abandoned homestead and the subsequent reclaiming of the land back to the natural habitat. Having been raised on a dairy farm when farming was a small family operation, Dan has experienced the modernization of farming over the past 40 years to that of an industry with the resultant loss of many family farm operations. As a testimony to the changing times, many a family farm now stands abandoned and the Pennsylvania landscape is dotted with the old homesteads in various stages of decay.

While we mourn the loss of a generation's contributions to our prosperity, we rejoice in the natural habitat resultant of nature's reclaiming the land. This progressive process provides a variety of habitat that abounds in wildlife.

The Homestead Series is a memorial to our heritage and a testimony to our golden future.

This series was created to be versatile. Each set can be framed together or separately. All four can be hung together on a wall, or one at a time, exchanging them each season. Matching numbers for the whole series can be ordered or reserved.
 

Sold Together as matching set for $135, artist proofs $180

After years of neglect, the old homestead is now in transition to ruins. Handcrafted and fitted timbers that once were pillars of strength now collapse with exposure to the elements as decay takes its toll.

Meanwhile the ecological transition from the cultivated to the wild is spreading from its earlier foothold, and those first reclaimants are in transition to maturity. The natural process whereby once cultivated land returns to its former natural state is a slow but sure process to which a succession of plants and animals will contribute. Transition is under way.
 

"Homestead Transition - Buck"
Image size: 13" x 18"
450 s/n prints @ $95
45 artist proofs @ $120

"Homestead Transition - Chickadee"
Image size: 9" x 13"
450 s/n @ $55
45 a/p @ $80
 

Sold Together as matching set for $135, artist proofs $180

The third in the series shows the structures in collapse from exposure to the elements and the weight of the winter's snow. The fields have become beds for shrubs and trees to sprout in the transition back to the forest. This is the "Last Stand" for the remains of civilization against the relentless reclaiming of nature.

Sold Together as matching set for $135, artist proofs $180

The last in the series captures the dawning of a new age as trees reclaim the land and a forest ecosystem is born. God in his perfect wisdom created each species of life with an infinitely complex genetic code to be a piece of the puzzle making each ecosystem. One can only stand in awe as we observe the process of nature and see God in his creation. The Bible states it this way in Romans 1:20; "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."

Sold Together as matching set for $135, artist proofs $180

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