Document Type
Other
Publication Date
7-2024
Keywords
Field Journal, National Parks, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Wind Cave, Badlands
Department
ART & DESIGN
Abstract
A handwritten, richly illustrated field journal by Binghamton University art major Isadora Davis, recording a trip through national parks in the American West via SUNY Broome's BIO 217: Ecology of National Parks. Davis uses colored pencil drawings and pressed botanical specimens to record landscapes, birds, mammals, and plant life in Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Wind Cave, and Badlands National Parks, as well as Custer State Park. Davis's sketches and diagrams visually explore how to decode past landscapes from current formations, while her written entries explain species diversity, animal behavior, and the mechanisms causing geological formations and geothermal events. Part memoir of discovery, part scientific guide, this journal is reminiscent of amateur naturalists' diaries of the nineteenth century.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Isadora, "National Parks Field Journal" (2024). Art and Design Student Scholarship and Projects. 1.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/art_student_project/1
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