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Richard Higgins’s Exhibit The Concord Free Public Library will host an exhibit of Richard Higgins’s photographs of trees November 2 through November 30. “An Eye for Trees, in Thoreau’s Concord and Today” was inspired by Thoreau’s way of seeing trees, according to Higgins, the author of Thoreau
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and the Language of Trees, published last year by the University of California Press. He said that vision combined poetic insight with keen observation. The exhibit, in the art gallery on the second floor of the library, is free and open to the public. Most of the 35 photographs depict common trees in Concord and surrounding towns, similar to those Thoreau knew and loved. About a third of them
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appeared in Higgins’s book. The majority are black and white, and Higgins said he took many of the photographs in winter, when snow and ice transform trees and disclose them anew. “If there’s an artistic aesthetic, it’s finding beauty in the familiar and ordinary—a skill he developed to a high degree,” said Higgins, a writer, editor and lecturer. “The delicate gold bark of yellow birches in Estabrook Woods meant more to him, he said, than the gold nuggets miners were rushing to find in California.”
“Thoreau said that we only truly see when we look, and he was ever looking to discern the expressions, character and beauty of trees.”
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