North American Beaver - White River National Forest, CO
North American Beaver - White River National Forest, CO
North American Beaver (Castor canadensis)
Many miles up a dirt road into the National Forest I found an incredible camping spot overlooking a valley. Looking down I could see the Beaver house and after a couple of days of staking it out was able to capture some photos of the Beavers hard at work patrolling and repairing their dam. This photo was taken 7/24/24 at 6:55 pm.
WeForest Donation: $260 (What is this?)
Print Number: 1/3
Print Size: 12.5 × 16 in.
Total Dimensions: 22 × 27 in.
Total Weight: 12 lbs
Hanging equipment and certificate of authenticity included.
THE PHOTOGRAPH
North American Beaver (Castor canadensis)
THE LOCATION
White River National Forest
THE FRAME
Cuban Mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni)
Cuban Mahogany is one of three species of Mahogany and it was originally the most widely used of the three. Nowadays, Honduran Mahogany is the much more prevalent wood and what most people would recognize as Mahogany. Native to the Caribbean, Cuban Mahogany’s northernmost range does include the far south of Florida, including the Keys. I happen to get all of my Cuban Mahogany from a salvager in the Keys who removes the trees from construction sites before cutting it into slabs and drying it.
THE ELEMENTS
Fire, Water, Earth, and Air
In the display case in the bottom of the frame, four items are in preserved glass vials. The items represent the elements: fire (wood charcoal), water (mineral oil), earth (soil), and air (a milkweed seed). I include these items in my work as a symbol of the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, and as a reminder that humans must do better.
THE PLAQUE
Magnetic Information Plaque
I engrave a wooden information plaque for each work. The plaque includes what the photograph is of, the location of the photograph, what type of wood the frame is made of, and where I sourced the wood. The plaques also explain why the vials are included in each work. The back of each plaque states the meaning of my logo: “The circle represents our home, Planet Earth. The hourglass represents time. The five horizontal lines in the bottom of the hourglass represent the five mass extinction periods that have occurred in the past. The single line falling through the hourglass represents our current mass extinction period, caused by us.” The plaques are attached magnetically and can be removed to read or to store on the back of each frame if you prefer not to have it displayed on the front.
