The legacy of an exhibition entitled "Human/Nature" a special project of the 21st season of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A., this book features works in a variety of media by 13 artists. The festival included installations by landscape architects Adriaan Geuze and Martha Schwartz, sculptors Magdalena Abakanowicz and Martha Jackson-Jarvis, video artist Mary Lucier, and self-taught artist Thornton Dial. John Beardsley — author, teacher, and critic — curated the exhibit and assembled this volume of projects that were scattered around Charleston and its surrounding countryside.