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Genesis, Konza Prairie

Edward Sturr is a Professor of Art Emeritus at Kansas State University whose special media of expression is photography. His photographs have been in numerous exhibitions and have won many awards including a Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Photography for his Konza Prairie work.

Of his print, Genesis, Konza Prairie, included in this exhibition, he points out that it shows a large tree stump blackened by fire that is obviously dead along with a fountain-like bloom of grass at its base that looks full of energy and life. It’s a tense juxtaposition of opposites, symbolic perhaps of the intrinsic force of our natural world to regenerate when given half a chance. And it’s that half a chance we need to give our good earth today.