Inspired by the relationship between art and nature, this art park covers 104 acres of conserved land overlooking the rural landscape around Cazenovia. At once both an art museum and a landscape, the more than 100 works of art displayed here are unsuited for preservation. Instead, the art is expected to change as nature demands, affected by weather, light, motion, color, and sounds. I photographed one of them – a weathered library shelf, filled with books that have been intentionally left to decay. I moved in to photograph the fascinating interplay of texture, color, and form. Both this work of art and my image of it comment on the accelerating deterioration of books, as we once knew them. As electronic readers replace ink on paper, one wonders how long the book will linger among us.