‘Mystery of life and death’

“Squirrel” (Iris print), by Vaughn Sills, a photographer based in Cambridge, Mass., and Prince Edward Island, at Anna Maria College, Paxton, Mass.

She says in her artist statement:

“I have chosen objects from nature one by one, found them, dug them, preserved them – a squirrel’s skeleton, poplar saplings that sprout from one long root, broken egg shells lying on the forest floor. I have taken them, or been given them, from the land on Prince Edward Island where my grandparents visited each summer, where I now have a cottage. I chose these things because of their extraordinary beauty – and because they seem to hold the mystery of life and death.’’”

Church in center of Paxton, Mass.