Of all the sciences, ecology asks most directly how humanity understands and participates in life. If the answers have ever been clear, they're certainly not now.

That ambiguity is reflected in "Beyond the Horizon," an exhibition organized by environmental art curators Ecoartspace and on display now at Deutsche Bank in New York City.

There's plenty of destruction and degradation, but the works are not simply about that. There's also resilience and vigor, an awareness of history and of humanity's extraordinary power to shape our environments -- controlling nature, but never quite completely.

As the exhibition is private, people seeking tours should contact Ecoartspace or walk through on the following pages.

The choice of Manhattan as setting is appropriate for Edlund, whose work addresses "the inherent contradiction between the mythic, utopian image of the great American landscape as exemplified by the Hudson River School, John James Audubon and Ansel Adams," and actual social reality. For Edlund, the landscape is a vehicle for addressing "social amnesia."