“These works create an experience of seeing that is complicated by motion and by memory. They seek to communicate about being in the landscape as much as about looking at it.”
“How a body moves through the land affects both what is observed in a landscape and the meaning derived from it. When I walked up a steep hill with no trail, the pain of small scratches from prickly gorse taught me why this shrub of beautiful yellow flowers is sometimes a boundary marker, and sometimes an impenetrable wall.”
“Without walking I would have never noticed details such as the changing colors of water. Without walking the same space daily, I would have never noticed how these small changes were traces of time.”
“As I walked and photographed, I tracked, with all of my senses, searching for clues to teach me this new way of looking at landscape. But, although what I learned was new to me, it is actually very, very old. I was re-learning ancient ways of feeling and understanding land that have largely been forgotten as contemporary lives are entrapped in the sanitized, the climate-controlled, the motorized, and the virtual.”
notes:
All photographs on the site have been registered with the US copyright office.