A pimple-faced teenage boy stares directly at the camera, exuding the overconfidence of youth. The world, as far as his understanding permits, is his to be explored and conquered. An algal bloom sparkles in the sun under a thin layer of trickling water, an electric green that resonates with the bleached yellow hair of a young man on another page. Another boy wears the proof of his sexual conquest around his neck in the form of hickeys.

The duo create visual poetry by pairing the breathtaking beauty of nature on a macro and a micro scale, and applying the same approach to their exploration of adolescence. An undulating stone sculpture analogous to a buxom woman is paired with a portrait of a young man whose expression is a surrogate for youth confronting an awakening reality it is unprepared to negotiate. Metaphors abound in their couplets.

A picture is a bookmark placed in our lives to remember little snippets of the relentlessly moving world around us. What is kept, what is discarded, and what is ultimately chosen and arranged for public viewing invite us to step into their world and pick up the clues, hinting at the story they are trying to tell, but never so definitively that we can't form our own interpretations. — Ed Templeton