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

Blaze: Subtle, Megan Shay, 2025, photography 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 and perhaps seeing the weirdness in painting bark as a reason to question the emphasis placed on finding & following a path. In Subtle, the low contrast between bark & blaze evokes the murkiness of way finding.