Negative Land

Blackout areas represent land within a regulated government boundary- the gray outline - that is not governement owned and therefore not necessarily subject to certain government regulations. These parcels of land fall into a sort of gray area of that often creates a difficult process of land management and decision making.

Raised Earth

One of the simplest forms of land manipulation - the raised earthen berm - can be used to keep things out or in. They are also one of the most enduring signs of landscape alteration, often surviving for hundreds of years in certain climates.

View At Arms Length

This installation is presented conjunction with Tucson Pima Arts Council's Fall Open Studio Tour, Saturday November 11 and Sunday November 12. The work deals with my ongoing interest in spaces that are created and divided up by various forms of urban infrastructure. This work focuses on the powerlines that intersect and obscure the view of my studio/apartment on the second floor of the Shane House. The act of looking and the discovery that comes from simply evaluating everything that lies between the viewer and the ostensible subject of interest-in this case my studio- is my primary concern. Day to day visual perception involves a tremendous amount of filtering and selective attention. I attempt to bring those elements that are filtered out into the foreground, bringing attention to the extremely dense visual field that exists around us.

IFNM BackPack Grid Full Size

Completed image of IFNM Backpacks. Eighty backpacks left in the desert by immigrants traveling north. Immigration is one pervasive element of the area that I have been working in and photographing, the Ironwood Forest National Monument.