At the end of a long road near where highway 150 meets the 33 in Ojai is a round studio building where the Taft Gardens and Nature Preserve host artists in residence. Here, Stephanie Washburn and Jane Mulfinger were in residence from fall 2021 to spring 2022. Taft Gardens, and the studio within it, exist in a rich and mysterious space between the wild and controlled, and the natural and ordered. Inside the studio, just beyond a rather sobering sign to watch out for rattlesnakes, Washburn and Mulfinger’s respective bodies of work invite you to contemplate the natural world and the sublime.