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Shannon's inspiration for this design was an article in Discover Magazine titled The Earth Without People. The article discussed various events that would occur if humans vanished from the planet and nature was free to reassert itself. "The imagery of buildings being swallowed by flora stuck with me, and I began to contemplate how I could express this imagery. It wasn't just the idea of plant life covering man made objects, but the more enduring and impressive idea of the resiliency of nature. Humans have paved, polluted, and pillaged the natural world, yet should we disappear (or stop those activities) then nature could, in time, repair itself."

Paradise Regained by Shannon Covington.
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Shannon Covington is an artist and aspiring floral designer. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Humboldt State University in studio art/photography. Her photographs have been shown in galleries in California and Oregon. Her work was also part of a group exhibition entitled Behind The Redwood Curtain: Women Photographers of Humboldt County, 1850-2000 which shows at the Reese Bullen Gallery in Arcata, California and at the International Photography Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma City.

This was the second time that Shannon's work has been accepted for the Floral Design as Art Exhibition.