My photography deals with the changing perspectives we have of landscape. I choose landscapes we often overlook or never encounter to expose the fractured logic that informs our experience of the natural world. The environment is perceived as a collection of stories chronicling the complex alliances and conflicts between nature and humanity.
Gridlines depicts images of electrical towers and lines stretched across the vast open space of the American West. Vistas interrupted by these giant objects of strange sculptural beauty are irrevocably altered, unsettling the viewer’s preconceptions of reality by unveiling patterns of beauty within a subject culturally regarded as ugly.
Re-Imagining Eden is a story about loss. It encompasses three views portraying a child moving from enchantment to disenchantment with the natural world. She journeys from innocent exploration of nature, to a fantasy experience within natural history dioramas of vanishing environments, to becoming a life size cut out, a virtual representation who no longer needs to be in person in the natural world to experience it.
Reflecting upon the ways in which memory influences our bonds with the land, the project, Landscape Narratives conveys impossible encounters with the natural world as experienced from the unconscious. Distinct views that combine external senses and the internal imagination in dream-like double images reveal a sense of fleeting moments from the uncanny.
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