An American Landscape
Over the course of time, landscapes change - an ever long revision of the physical states either by natural or manmade catalysts. On film, the landscape is an immortal vignette of time that acts as a mechanism to bring us back to the precise moment and standing where the photographer saw what he saw. The resulting object becomes a lie, a memory, an expression, a document, an artifact, a photograph. And when a catalyst like fire is applied to it, the contained landscape becomes a visual metaphor for creation and destruction. Its altered, ruined form mimics the reality of destruction in the world in which we live. The landscapes are apocalyptic and ethereal to invoke the thoughtful exploration of human existence and extinction. The intention of the white space is to pull the viewer toward the eternal question of what exists past this world? It is there, we can decide if there is nothing or if there is a blank slate, ready for new creation.
