A Knot Once Tied | Liza Macrae Archival inkjet print of low resolution digital image

For 25 years, while working as a mother, gardener, house builder, and homemaker, Tivoli resident Liza Macrae has used the camera to explore the world around her and to ask questions of it. This close look at a discarded helium balloon is part of "Reflections from Home," Macrae's continuing series of works that seek out "life and beauty in simple, unencumbered forms." Considering each image a "poem of prayer and meditation, promise and continuation, and/or tension and balance," Macrae "charges" her photographs "with a force and a life of their own, much like a poem," representing "long, reflective moments, made of sound, sight, and smell" offering "solace from the news of the day."