Counter Intuitive

by Margot Guralnick

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Artist Statement

My work is a daily meditation on—and a collaboration with—the plant life growing in my neighborhood in the Bronx. What began as a collector’s impulse to gather finds on dog walks has led to an unexpected daily practice: an attempt to decipher nature’s hieroglyphics and create order and pattern out of my discoveries.

My collages celebrate urban botanical life, so crucial to our well-being but so often completely unnoticed. The trees and weeds in my neck of the urban woods present the exotic in the everyday—and provide a source of wonder and solace in the face of an alarming world. They teach the benefits of diversity and the many faces of fortitude. I like to think my ephemeral creations, captured by my camera, translate some of these messages to the world.

Why We Love It

The architecture and interiors editor at Remodelista and co-author of the book Remodelista: The Organized Home, Guralnick has an eye for the indoors, but it’s her outdoor finds that she’s been chronicling on her Instagram feed. Her “Dog Walk Diary” does have one notable common denominator with her day job: a penchant for artful organizing. We found ourselves fawning over much more than just her rescue pup Enrique. There’s a breathless quality to Guralnick’s compositions, a sense of suspension. The plant matter she’s gathered is beautiful in its own right, but by thoughtfully re-arranging her treasures against a contrasting background she transposes and transforms them. Recontextualized, the urban botanical life in Counter Intuitive gets its due. Her photograph is a poem dedicated to the magical precision of mushroom gills, to blushing maple seed pods and the delicate sensuality of begonia and rose petals—wonders of a natural world that too often goes ignored ... Read more on the blog!

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+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
+ Directly supports the artist
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

Medium:

Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta

Edition Structure:
10"x8" | edition of 10
14"x11" | edition of 250
20"x16" | edition of 50
30"x24" | edition of 10

Margot Guralnick

Margot Guralnick lives life as a treasure hunt: on walks with her rescue dog, Enrique, she gathers fallen leaves, seed pods, and other natural wonders that she assembles into compositions she describes as "daily devotionals." Inspired by early botanical illustration and roadside shrines in Greece and Mexico, Guralnick's work shines a light on a magical, overlooked world all around us. Her photographs have been featured at LA's Arena 1 Gallery and on the cover of the Beekman 1802 Almanac.
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