Blaze: Stare, 2025, photograph on watercolor paper, 30 x 20 in. / 76.2 x 50.8 cm.

Blaze: Stare, Megan Shay, 2025, photograph on watercolor paper, 30 x 20 in. / 76.2 x 50.8 cm.

Blaze is a series presenting trail blazes as portraits to encourage looking closely as an act of meditation and to see the weirdness in painting bark as a reason to question the emphasis placed on finding & following a path. In Stare, the strange animal gazes back with challenge and reproach.