The well known fragment 123 of Heraclitus reads: "Nature loves to hide itself'.
The Australian bush can be quite messy, dense and chaotic and quite difficult to walk in and to photograph. Often there are no pathways through the thicket and you have to go around it.
The photo above is an attempt to evoke, or disclose, the presence of the tangled and chaotic Waitpinga bushland of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. What is disclosed is the emergence of an entity in the natural world into presence -- into a space of unconcealment-- from what has been concealed. This presence is not stable as it is constantly moving or undergoing change over time.
Heraclitus is a philosopher of flux. Things slip from possessing one characteristic over into possessing the opposite one. Or the same objects or “natures” can be viewed as having opposing characteristics when observed from different perspectives.The ature of a being is nature is relational and shifting with its interplay of concealment and unconcealment.