Robert Buelteman's 2013 lecture at Stanford's Annenberg Hall, presenting new artworks made while a guest at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.

1. Let beauty
of what we love
be what we
do.
There are a
thousand ways
to kneel and
kiss the
ground.
-
RumiTrillium in Bloom

2. Arcularius Ranch
(1988)

4. Montara Mountain (1988)

5. 280 Sunrise
(1988)

6. Sierran Spring (1974)

7. Road to Loreto (1999)

8. Tori Stargate, Djerassi Resident Artists Program

9. The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment
To sacrifice what we are
For what we might become.
-Charles DuBois

10. Alstroemeria, sp.
(1999)

11. Through the Green Fuse
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
(2005)

12. Eryngium Matrix
(2005)

13. White Clematis
(2006)

14. San Miguel Mission
(2006)

15. Mexican Hat (2007)

16. Untitled Photogram
(2007)

18. Philippe Cohen, Executive Director, Jasper Ridge Biological
Preserve

19. Spreading Oak (2010)

20. Streaming Cobbles, Corte Madera Creek
(2011)

21. San Francisquito Creek
(2010)

22. Bedrock Mortars (2011)

23. El Rancho del corte de Madera
(1997)

24. Winter Oak
(2012)

25. Imbricated Blocks
(2012)

26. Overtop, Searsville Dam (2010)

27. Spring Thimbleberry

28. Bigleaf Maple

29. Fallen Lichen

30. Black Oak

31. Field Mustard

32. Maidenhair Fern

33. Mule’s Ear

34. View from the Window at La Gras (1824) Joseph Niecephore Niépce

35. Two delicate plant fronds
Photogenic drawing negative, 1939 (est.)
William Henry Fox Talbot

36. Oak Leaf (February 29, 1839) Sir John Herschel

37. Chylocladia davellosa
Cyanotype print (1842)
Anna Atkins

38. Daniel Colladon’s “Light Pipe”

41. Self Portrait
(2006)

43. Leatherwood

44. Solomon’s Seal

45. Electric Lichen

46. Green Mandala

47. Woodland Forest Floor

48. Farewell to Spring

49. Red-Flowering Currant

50. Buckeye Cluster

51. Carriage Glass Lichen

52. Willow Bud Break