Photographs remove horizons and vanishing points to contain viewers within the picture plane, producing images that appear to look back. Landscapes are presented as feral, living entities where stones hold memory and the Earth hums with awareness. Still scenes suggest motion and altered perception, evoking experiences like those under psychedelics or strong medication. Inspiration comes from shamanism and magical realism, reimagining reality beyond photographic conventions. Personal life events, including the arrival of two daughters and experiences in the Sonoran desert, inform the work, with references to ancient ironwood trees that live for millennia and sometimes seemingly return to life.
I wanted to contain you within the plane of the picture. With no vanishing points, the photographs begin to look back at us' This is the feral Earth, always changing. Yet there is a movement within the still world, a quality akin to what one sees when under the influence of psychedelics or strong medication' What I hope to do is to expand a line of questioning.
The inspiration for these pictures is largely outside the field of photography. Shamanism and magical realism are more like it modes of thought involved in reimagining what is real' When I speak about my work, or failing to write about it, I rarely connect its meaning or motivation with my personal life perhaps because I want the work to speak on its own' Walk to the precipice and throw a forked branch into the void to clear something from inside yourself'
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