What is an Urban Wild?
by Dennis Pultinas

An urban wild has an element of timelessness - a natural element that represents time before human interference.

It may be topology: a cliff, a swamp, a river; a landscape that has existed for thousands of years.

Or, it may be trees. Perhaps a fifty foot red oak - a descendent of oaks before it - stretching back in time through the millennia.

Or, it may be the weather: the sun, blue sky, cold wind or rain prevailing on the present scene as it did in the primordial one.

Or, it may be a wild animal: a song bird, squirrel or fox continuing the lineage of their species; going about its existence quietly alongside man.

The acreage of the site is not important. It can be a rock outcropping or perhaps a tiny bit of land that was never built upon.

An urban wild is something real and touchable.

But also something that for a moment touches the imagination and leads one to see through it backward in time to the wild reality from which existence springs.