Tarantula: Authors and Art's Featured Artist of July

Chronicling Joy In Every Day Moments with Nina Buesing

I am an observer who highlights and investigates connections and history. I collect moments. My nomadic upbringing honed my observational skills and heightened my awareness of impermanence. Photography was always the logical tool for me to observe - and record. My photography documents and always holds joy. It is a meditative practice. It is a choice. A way to exist and cope - and to share & connect.

- Nina Buesing, photographer

As the heat starts raising in the Western Hemisphere, winter creeps into the rest of the world; which ever part of the planet you find yourself in and if you are lucky, it might be time for vacation. For some of you this might be the first summer after the pandemic that you have the opportunity to travel, a first time to escape from the heaviness that we have had and are still feeling of the last few years. For others journeying might mean going inwards at first, before we face the big wide world.

Whichever road you choose during these summer months, Tarantula: Authors and Art is excited to kick off the summer with photographer Nina Buesing who after a year of covid, homeschooling, and other challenges, took her children on a road trip through out the United States.

As most of us are still living in between two worlds, and with a possible urge to overcompensate for what we think we missed during the last few years, let Nina’s photographs remind us that it is the little moments right in front of us, colorfully captured, that might be the only things that matter right now.