Books

In our culture, the natural landscape has increasingly become more of an idea than a place, a view from behind a car window, or a vista in the distance beyond a look-out point guard rail.

As we have become progressively removed from the actual landscape, first as an industrial, and now as an informational society, the natural landscape has correspondingly become a concept more and more idealized, subjectified, and homogenized. The idea, as opposed to the reality, of the American landscape--frontier, wilderness--has taken on a significance of mythic proportions, treasured as a backdrop to our collective national unconsciousness.

This was the pivotal project that in 2003 and 2004 radically changed my approach in photography from a straight process to a hybrid art process. After 15 years of working in both large and medium format in the pursuit of the perfect print I snapped and realized that there had to be more…

In addition to shows both here in the USA there was also a show in 2004 in Paris, France at ESpace Bergger. Works from this collection are in numerious private collections as well as the Polaroid Collections.