Georgia, United States
As a child I spent hours, sometimes an entire day, outside, roaming the nearby woods, streams and rivers. I brought home from these journey's little bits of nature. Pebbles, stones, leaves, turtle shells, bird's nests and even the occasional live frog or salamander. Nature was my first art teacher and remains the most influential to this day. As an adult, I'm still roaming the woods and bringing home bits of this and that in my pocket.