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Spanish Moss 34” x 48” Photograph pigment print 2009 Karen Glaser 30 Spanish Moss is from a series called The Mark of Water: Florida’s Springs and Swamps — Karen Glaser. This series is made mostly “inside” Florida’s springs, swamps and waterways providing a unique interpretation of these distinctive environments. Taken with a 35mm camera and only using available light, the images appear distinctively grainy, further abstracting these rarely seen worlds. They elevate the complexity and fragility of aquatic systems that lie beyond the day-to-day perspective of most people. Karen Glaser has an MFA from Indiana University-Bloomington and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. For more than two decades, Glaser has been photographing underwater ecosystems. Taking her camera both above and below the surface of America’s coastal waters and Florida’s wetlands, she has captured diverse forms of life that have existed since prehistoric times. Glaser’s photographs of these remote spaces have a timeless quality in the tradition of Audubon’s ornithological watercolors or Da Vinci’s water drawings. [email protected] • karenglaserphotography.com Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia • Currently based in Ft. White, Florida