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Alaskan Zen

JMU professor and gallery director Gary Freeburg served two tours in Vietnam. He escaped the noise and confusion of war by visiting Japanese Zen gardens. He now takes photographs of the barren Alaskan wilderness in the hopes of capturing that same kind of calm peace.

Gary Freeburg's Photographs

Information about the Ryoan-ji Japanese Zen Garden

Gary's book -The Valley of 10,000 Smokes: Revisiting the Alaskan Sublime

Marth Woodroof has retired from WMRA and is now spending her time as a full-time writer and published author.