Create and contemplate beauty—learn to see and appreciate beauty, learn to stop and admire something beautiful. (Laudato Si #112, #215) 

Kimberly Blaeser ‘90 Ph.D.

When I lose myself, come untethered from the now, the “real,” the static compartmentalized world, then I find my spiritual home. Truly entering natural spaces, we see and experience differently. What is wonder if not giving ourselves liberty to be filled, to drink in the beauty around us? Nature gestures—toward the sublime, the inexplicable, the unnamable. Through my photography and poetry, I try to render such moments and invite immersion in an-other realm of intersecting realities. We call this realm by different names: memory, spirit, vision. This image, like many of my pieces, comes from such an experience of transformation; it invites the viewer to the see and re-see—to travel to the other side of vision.

Kimberly is the current poet laureate of Wisconsin, and the credit for this gorgeous photo goes to her.