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I have
spent most of my life living in fairly densely populated parts of the East Coast. As a result, my elusive love is space:
outer space; the desert; the plains. My particular interest in the space of the
American landscape grows out of the complicated junctions between the ideal of
this landscape as it is presented to us when we are young, our nation’s complex
interaction with that mythology, and the very real power one often feels when
experiencing the landscape firsthand.
I choose
images that operate visually on an iconic (or, at least, familiar) level, but
shoot them from an angle or with an exposure or focus that induces an odd
perceptual sense of space or scale.
I do not wish to create photographic documents of places nor fully
digested, subjective impressions.
Rather, I hope my photographs exist somewhere in between, recreating an
experience of place for the viewer.
While I want to project my own personal vision of the landscape toward
the viewer, more important to me is the viewer’s own connection to the
experience—be it alien or familiar.
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