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The images in the Reflective Awareness series have captured a part of my imagination that stops and gazes in wonder at the amazing creative patterns of our World and the experience of our collective Mind within that Continuum.

These photographs reflect the natural world, including wildlands, gardens, and the details of sky, water, earth, rocks, and plants, animated by sunlight and mirrored along their horizontal and vertical axes. The result is a type of Mandala that is rooted in the Earth and invites one into a state of reflection yielding new levels of discovery. (continued below)

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All images ©Scott Hess

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The viewer sees temple structures, insects, birds, faces, skeletons, trees and other living forms appearing from the universal patterns that penetrate and surround us all. It causes one to ponder the creative dance of dualities that comprise the very structure of our mental and natural worlds. I think of the creation stories of the Australian Aborigines and Native American cultures where it is recognized that all creatures arise from the landscape in which they are born—sung into being by our Creative Ancestors—and comprehended through an emerging reflective awareness.

—Scott Hess

"The Reflective Awareness series of photos is stunning, both as fine art, and also in the way they reveal the intricacies of the contemporary and mythological landscape. They connect familiar scenes with a network of resonances in the emotions and the brain—a power that goes far beyond natural images."
—Patricia Johanson, Internationally Reknown Environmental Artist

"They're stunning, a truly moving and unique vision, and one which I believe can stimulate greater love, engagement and protection for the Earth—what a stellar achievement."
—Nina Simons, Co-Producer, Bioneers Conference and Co-Executive Director, Collective Heritage Institute

"These natural mandalas are spiritual—I could easily believe that these are actual images of the molecules or energetic particles of the local ecosystem."
—Gloria Flora, Former US Forest Supervisor and Environmental Heroine

"You capture the Visual-felt experience of the intelligent presence-design-pattern-fractal-spirit-of-nature and inherant-in-all-things-through-which-we-connect. It is as if by completing the image through your mandalas you give the mind an easy access road through the portal of your photos to the sacred."
—Tina Amorok, Research Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences