An Artist Who Photographs Weeds

For Doug Burgess, weeds are constant companions. As a kid, Doug was given the task of removing weeds from the front lawn, but his task extended through his teen-age years and beyond. "As a middling bureaucrat," he writes, "I often pulled weeds as a form of therapy." He adds that after more than a half-century of weeding, he still did not have a single weed-free patch to show for his efforts. Finally, Doug -- as he put it -- "went over to the dark side" by moving to a neighborhood where no one worries about weeds. Now he names the weeds he finds in his yard and follows their life-cycle. And he photographs them. Meet an artist named Doug Burgess.

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