FAIRVIEW — The Fairview Museum will open a new artist exhibit featuring Ephraim photographer Savannah Withers on Friday, March 13.
An open house is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. at the museum. The exhibit will remain on display through May 29, according to Celeste Curtis of the Fairview Museum.

Withers, a Snow College student pursuing an Associate of Fine Arts degree, explores fantasy, storytelling and fine art photography in her work. She has exhibited in several Snow College galleries and focuses on blending natural landscapes with symbolic elements to examine emotion, identity and the balance between imagination and reality.

Her current body of work, titled TecnoFlora, centers on the relationship between nature and technology. The series draws inspiration from time she spent in Porto, Portugal, where she observed vegetation overtaking abandoned city blocks.

The project examines what Withers describes as the cycle of growth, decay and reclamation. She defines reclamation as nature reasserting itself over manmade structures, and decay as transformation that allows new growth to emerge from what has been left behind. Through the work, she asks viewers to consider humanity’s temporary presence within a larger ecosystem.

To represent those ideas visually, Withers created two sculptural dresses. One dress is constructed from natural materials such as plants. The other incorporates discarded and broken technology. In the finished pieces, organic and artificial materials intertwine, with plants weaving through wires and technological fragments merging with natural forms.

The contrast highlights both tension and coexistence. The work suggests that nature is not separate from technology but ultimately capable of overtaking and transforming it.

The March 13 open house will give the public an opportunity to meet Withers and view the exhibit at the Fairview Museum before it continues through late May.