Margot Guralnick Dog Walk Diary

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

I’ve never been religious, but my dog walks and the unplanned creations I make along the way have become my daily devotional. The greenery in my immediate surroundings shows me the exotic in the everyday. And I like to think my ephemeral creations—captured via iPhone and Sony RX100, and posted daily on Instagram—translate some of these messages to the world. My collages celebrate urban botanical life, so crucial to our own well-being but so often completely unnoticed.