This body of work is an investigation of landscape’s blend of majesty, harmony, history and the character of place. It questions how we stand in relation to landscape, how we move from the general to the particular, and how our lives are interwoven into the history of place.

Landscape presents many forces at work, geological to the human, a display of tremendous subtly. The sensitivities of this presentation are of great interest. Context aids, facilitates and isessential for understanding. Shapes, as symbol and metaphor, help us to acknowledge space and space, combined with experience and memory, defines a place. The interplay between the environments we create and our living within them fuels my exploration of landscape. Paying attention to this viable relationship with nature, I am intrigued by the intermingling of ordering and domesticating the land into desirable forms. At the same time, nature orders and protects itself. The land grows over, reclaims and buries within itself. Such simple features provide a rich exhibit of an area’s course and character. I am paying attention to the force of the flow, the irreversible dimension of time, and the always-changing conditions of light.

Through a quiet, reflective study of the American landscape, I aim to capture the landscape behind the landscape. The path or street leading nowhere, perhaps lurking behind a stretch of highway. These poetic fragments, which weave a compact narrative from individual pictures, are eager to speak for themselves. It is my intention for my photographs to contain anostalgic sensitivity that is also disciplined and kept from becoming romantic—this is my subtle distinction. The photographs are a sympathetic view of the changes in the land while carefully seeking out signs of humanity reacting to nature.