Foltz Fine Art is please to present E. Dan Klepper-“Wayfinder: Navigating the Natural Order”, an exhibition presenting a series of photographs and constructed images that explore how humans orient themselves within the shifting systems of the natural world. The exhibition is on view from March 20 through May 2, 2026, and opens with a public reception on Friday, March 20, from 5 to 7 PM.
“Wayfinder: Navigating the Natural Order” presents a series of photographs and constructed images that explore how humans orient themselves within the shifting systems of the natural world. The exhibition traces connections between natural phenomena—eclipses, moon phases, tides, weather—and the symbolic codes people use to find direction, from ancient constellations to the Hobo Code once carved along travel routes. Together, these works reveal how the act of navigation extends beyond geography into the rhythms of daily life.
The Natural Order refers to the patterns, cycles, and forces that shape the physical world—the way things occur and change without human design or control. It includes everything from the predictable rhythms of tides, moon phases, and growth to the unpredictable dynamics of weather, erosion, fire, and chance. The phrase implies no hierarchy or intention; instead, it acknowledges that nature contains both structure and randomness, balance and disruption, coexisting within a single, ever-shifting system.
Balancing observation and imagination, Wayfinder reflects on the ways pattern and chaos coexist in nature and in us. The exhibition invites viewers to consider navigation as both a practical and poetic act — a way of reading the signals written into light, land, and time, and of recognizing the elements that guide us through the world.
