Edward Fausty’s Refuge at the Watchung Arts Center began as straightforward landscape photographs printed in digital pigments on fine papers. But since the Covid pandemic they have morphed into complex works on paper combining the insularity of his daily walks in the woodlands around Morris County, with the tensions of world events, perhaps most notably the pandemic itself. He has designed graphics using various resources and placed them beneath the woodland photographs, deliberately interfering with their innate simplicity. Most of the photographs also challenge the expected rectangular shape; they take the form of open book folios, evoking a saga of past, present and future.
