Healing Landscape: A Damaged World in Transition
Once home to an array of wildlife and plants, the San Francisco Bay Area salt ponds are now a world of blazing colors and patterns when viewed from above. Their dark past connected to the manufacture of napalm is part of the complicated story of a thriving land in transition—a healing landscape that unites many worlds as one.
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Biography
joSon was born in the Philippines to a Filipino mother and an African-American father. At the age of ten, he was sent to live with his mother’s family in Vietnam, where he was educated in a Buddhist temple throughout his teen years in preparation for becoming a monk.“I thought that was my calling long before I saw life through the viewfinder,” joSon continues,“…but the truth is, I have never left the monkhood. I just left the temple."You can see that very clearly in his work today in my work, a still life of a flower or a landspace–meditations on the beauty to be found in the simplest of forms
