Jeff Rich’s photographs along the riverfront examine the ways that nature shapes our own living space.

Nature, in the winding form of the French Broad river, abuts industry, and man builds his home, city, and garden, somewhere between. We build a pool next to the river. We create something contained and predictable to press back against the uncontrollable natural world. With subtle observation, Rich studies the intersection of water and land, with its inhabitants and all that they bring with them.

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