Blue Eyed Grass
With the calming color blue and the beauty of a wildflower, the image of Blue Eyed Grass engages and distracts the viewer. Blue is the color of spirituality, inspiration and inner peace. In healing blue is used for cooling and calming, both physically and mentally.
With the calming color blue and the beauty of a wildflower, the image of Blue Eyed Grass engages and distracts the viewer. Blue is the color of spirituality, inspiration and inner peace. In healing blue is used for cooling and calming, both physically and mentally.
Growing Wild & Free
Images of the prairie, when displayed in healthcare and working environment provides a refuge and increases productivity. Bring nature indoors can generate positive emotions and release stress.
True Wild Mid West Prairies are a wonderful example of Biophilia or “Love of Life”. They are filled with life and energy. The abundance is evident. The feel of such an atmosphere provides an overwhelming connection nature. Images of the prairie, when displayed in healthcare and working environment provides a refuge and increases productivity. Bring nature indoors can generate positive emotions and release stress.
Renewal
Images of nature help renew the bond between humans and other living systems in healthcare and corporate settings. Images of nature help heal, reduce stress & inspire the viewer.
“Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons : it’s rebirth of the spirit. There is a cleaning from darkness the moment we sink our fingers into spring’s fresh earth.” Toni Sorenson. Images of nature help renew the bond between humans and other living systems in healthcare and corporate settings. Images of nature help heal, reduce stress & inspire the viewer.
Forest Bathing
Images of nature in a health care or corporate setting has much of the same benefits. Visual connections with nature provide an refuge for the body and the mind. Images of nature encourages Forest Bathing when needed.
Spending time in nature can improve one’s health.
Forest Therapy is rooted in the Japanese practice of Shinnin-yoku, often translated as “forest bathing”. The term refers to taking in the forest or nature atmosphere. It is a therapy developed in Japan during the 1980s, becoming a cornerstone of preventative health care and healing in Japanese medicine. Studies have demonstrated reductions in stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness as the health benefits of spending time amongst trees and nature.
Images of nature in a health care or corporate setting have much of the same benefits. Visual connections with nature provide an refuge for the body and the mind. Images of nature encourages “Forest Bathing” when needed.
On the Glade
A unique combination of plants can be found on a glade. The Blue Wild Indigo and a Yellow Indian Paintbrush are among those that grow in the rocky landscape.
A unique combination of plants can be found on a glade. The Blue Wild Indigo and a Yellow Indian Paintbrush are among those that grow in the rocky landscape. The glades exist because the rocky core of the Ozark dome is shallow, or sometimes completely exposed on the flat surface of the land. Plants and animals that adapt to glades will remind you of the desert or prairies.
Take Time to Notice
Details can be engaging and require the attention of the viewer. Components of nature are calming elements in a health and memory care environment.
Sometimes it pays to look below your feet, to see the beauty in the simple details. Take the time to notice the small facts or pieces of a larger entity. The parts of the whole provide information about a much larger story or scene. Details can be engaging and require the attention of the viewer. Components of nature are calming elements in a health and memory care environment.
Rain Drops like Jewels
Water droplets hang like jewels on the blooms of an ornamental onion after a thunder storm. Remember, a flower in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.
Water droplets hang like jewels on the blooms of an ornamental onion after a thunder storm. Remember, a flower in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.
Dutchman’s Breeches
They have blooms that resemble strings of inverted pantaloons hung out to dry in the spring breeze.These were found along a mossy path during a camera hike.
Dutchman’s Breeches are one of the native wildflowers that bloom in the very early spring. They are an unexpected treat for those who hike on a river bottom trail. They have blooms that resemble strings of inverted pantaloons hung out to dry in the spring breeze.These were found along a mossy path during a camera hike.
Visual Connection
Sycamore trees just beginning to bud provide a visual connection with nature.
Sycamore trees just beginning to bud provide a visual connection with nature. Displaying an scene to focus the the views attention presents a positive link to the outside world.
Native Dogwood
Fresh blooms of native white dogwood are a reminder of the the renewal of spring
Fresh blooms of native white dogwood are a reminder of the the renewal of spring. “Spring buds burst to blooms and the breeze carries their song os life” Javita Bhattacharjee
Pretty in Pink
Spring Cherry Blossom are perfect symbols of humans connection to nature.
Spring Cherry Blossom are perfect symbols of humans connection to nature. The color pink represents unconditional love, requiring nothing in return. Pink which is often associated with women’s health is consider a soft, earthy tone. In nature pink is a uplifting symbol of renewal.
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Purple Fields
Although the tiny intruder can be a menace to some, it allows the sense to bathe in the joy of spring
One of the early sights in the midwest farm lands are the purple fields of spring. Often before the fields are plowed and planted the tiny purple wildflower (a weed actually) the hen bit takes hold. Although the tiny intruder can be a menace to some, it allows the sense to bathe in the joy of spring.
Natural Benefits
using nature art to bring nature indoors: Images of nature provide all the benefits of outdoor nature scenes but in a format that can exist indoors.
using nature art to bring nature indoors: Images of nature provide all the benefits of outdoor nature scenes but in a format that can exist indoors. Stephen Kellert, author of Nature by Design describes these as, “Images of plants, animals, water, landscapes, and geological features [that] continue to be common forms of contact between people and nature in the built environment.”
Summer Reflections
When urban art and nature are combined the beauty of both benefit all.
When urban art and nature are combined the beauty of both benefit all. There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water. – Mehmet Murat Ildan.
Wild in the Woodland
Early spring woodland wildflower appear along the trails in the Midwest. The color purple is associated with wisdom, powder and healing.
Early spring woodland wildflower appear along the trails in the Midwest. The color purple is associated with wisdom, powder and healing.
Spring at Last
Spring Beauty the first tiny signs of renewal. A welcome sight!
Spring Beauty the first tiny signs of renewal. A welcome sight!
Rush of Spring
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the spring. Look below your feet to see the beauty in simple details.
Love of Life
Humans have an innate need to affiliate with other life such as plants and animals. This essentially means that humans have a desire to be near nature. A visual connection with nature provides much of the same benefits as a walk in the woods.
The definition of Biophilia is Love of Life. It is the relationship between humans and nature. Humans have an innate need to affiliate with other life such as plants and animals. This essentially means that humans have a desire to be near nature. A visual connection with nature provides much of the same benefits as a walk in the woods.
Closer Look
Reducing the subject to an abstract has a calming effect by engaging and distracting the viewer.
Take a closer look at the details, texture and light. Details help the viewer enjoy the elements of an image. Getting close to take in the colors and patterns of the composition draws the viewer in. Getting close allows the subject to be experienced in many different ways. Reducing the subject to an abstract has a calming effect by engaging and distracting the viewer.