Formation Relocation

The investigation of the grandeur in photographic truth over the romanticized nostalgia of a sense of place has been an on-going conversation when addressing the history of American west landscape photography. I make photographs using four equally sized rocks found at one of the National parks, a light source, and a camera. Through the limiation of material, I've begun to explore the romantic sublime world of abstract landscapes. And how what is being seen becomes an illusion by shifting the scale of the natural world to play with perception.

My work addresses the duality of the finite within the infinite by challenging the conventions of the American west imagery through abstraction.  By taking the tradtional process of making landscapes to create a new perspective that mimics yet challenges the reality of what is being seen. The process of viewing an unknown landscapes can become a chance to explore, to experience puzzlement and question it's existence, a fictional reality.