Juliette Conroy's images of nature deal with the subjective relationship of the artist to her childhood environment, and the one she has continued to seek out. Through selective focus, blurred images and cropping, the camera is used not to faithfully record the subject, but rather to create a distortion, an organic wave of shape and color, resulting in an image that is as much about feeling as seeing. The intensity of the colors evoke the super-saturated intensity of childhood, while the blur of the images mirrors how we choose to view the snippets which become lodged in our memories.The abstraction of the subject matter, taking it down to a trace of its original form, and use of color is evocative of the American abstract painters. While most of the images are made digitally, there is no manipulation other than that which takes place in the camera, everything is shot using natural, available light.This current project involves the life cycle of one particular plant.