Gravel Wash, New Mexico
Why confine photography to rectangles? We don’t see in rectangles, and our world is not rectangular. When we survey landscapes that interest us, certain features – landforms, clouds, manufactured components, textures, contrasts – excite us, and these same features activate landscape images. Why not stress these elements and diminish or omit less active components of a landscape?
This body of work seeks to exploit the visual habit of landing on certain points of particular interest in a landscape, as it abandons the rectangle (or the square) container for the image. It blends changes in perspective as different parts of a scene come into view, assembling a survey from smaller segments.
The resulting images challenge our assumptions about photographs, while building a sense of space out of the irregular boundaries. These images echo our own habits of vision, becoming as much psychological representations as visual depictions.
This body of work seeks to exploit the visual habit of landing on certain points of particular interest in a landscape, as it abandons the rectangle (or the square) container for the image. It blends changes in perspective as different parts of a scene come into view, assembling a survey from smaller segments.
The resulting images challenge our assumptions about photographs, while building a sense of space out of the irregular boundaries. These images echo our own habits of vision, becoming as much psychological representations as visual depictions.