Our Habitat, our place in the world, may or may not be a location on a map, or confined within four walls.  Perhaps our Habitat reflects the coevolutionary and symbiotic relationship between humankind and nature -- our human desire to connect to the natural world.  A breath of fresh air in a riotous field of flowers might ground us to our place in the world.  That special place might be found when you are lost within the pages of a book, a thought, a dream, or a memory.   Maybe our Habitat is that domesticated space or protective barrier where we have surrounded ourselves with those things that delight and inspire us.  As artists, we fill that blank space with the precious, the strange, or the sentimental objects we collect as we curate our lives.  Consciously or unconsciously we weave places, people, and things into the fabric that surrounds us -- our Habitat.  SAQA Oregon artists were invited to interpret in either a representational or abstract way a response to Habitat.

“We are drawn to certain locations where the land resonates with us and pulls us towards it. People can spend their entire lives looking for places where they belong, places where they feel at home, where they fit and can comfortably set down roots.”

— MARY REYNOLDS
THE GARDEN AWAKENING: DESIGNS TO NURTURE OUR LAND & OURSELVES