Work — VISUAL OF THINGS

Homestead
Homestead is a portrait of the romanticized American landscape told through a collection from my extended family's original homesteaded site. Defined by a large ownership of land, Homestead looks perceptively at the appeals of the origi — Homestead Homestead is a portrait of the romanticized American landscape told through a collection from my extended family's original homesteaded site. Defined by a large ownership of land, Homestead looks perceptively at the appeals of the original American dream and its promise to those willing to commit themselves to a risky path of hard work, sacrifice, and hope for a better future. For my family, this included periods of boon, growth and prosperity. But it also came with generational change in needs, wants, and desires. What began as a story born of American sincerity and devotion eroded into a story of estrangement, loss, taxes and a trust. While many now believe the new dream panders to adolescents and post-adolescents who are fearful of growing up, my work in Homestead looks inward to reflect on cultural exports and its appeal within lore and mythology.

El Camino del Diablo The vast line of a desert horizon, seemingly isotropic; forever expanding into the distance.

Geologists estimate that the Sonoran Desert has been accumulating for about two billion years. Today it occupies approximately 100, — El Camino del DiabloThe vast line of a desert horizon, seemingly isotropic; forever expanding into the distance.
Geologists estimate that the Sonoran Desert has been accumulating for about two billion years. Today it occupies approximately 100,000 square miles, an area larger than Britain. This series is an abstract view of the immigration policy of "prevention through deterrence", a proposition that undocumented migrants undertake border crossings through increasingly remote areas, where hostile land and elements strategically impede passage.

Minutemen
A pseudo portrait of armed U.S. civilian groups patrolling the Arizona/Mexico border that participate as volunteer, trained vigilantes. Faded from the heat and sun of the Sonoran Desert, the empty shells were collected from sites located through web social networks. At the time, this project represented my desire to tell a story about social phenomena within the landscape. Completed in 2011, this piece is part of a collection of 30 and exhibits widely.

Dry Rivers Using a method of mapping photography used by satellites, aerial photographers and archaeologists, high resolution images of the landscape surface were produced to replicate dry river beds in 1:1 scale. They reveal in extreme detail the — Dry RiversUsing a method of mapping photography used by satellites, aerial photographers and archaeologists, high resolution images of the landscape surface were produced to replicate dry river beds in 1:1 scale. They reveal in extreme detail the preserved tracks of migratory humans and animals.

Plastic drink containers, found submerged within a 200ft sample section of the Santa Cruz
River in AZ. — Plastic drink containers, found submerged within a 200ft sample section of the Santa Cruz River in AZ.

Sprawl: Phoenix From Above Phoenix, Arizona has become the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the US; labeling it as one of the world's least sustainable cities. A commissioned body of work with the City of Phoenix, AZ. Published in, City By Design: Phoenix: An Architectural Perspective of the Greater Phoenix Valley.

The Desert Is Theirs The unstandardized American geography of the Mojave Desert. "An American desert may be cynically described as an arid zone with a four-lane highway slapped down in the middle of it. That is, nowadays, the way in which America — The Desert Is TheirsThe unstandardized American geography of the Mojave Desert.
"An American desert may be cynically described as an arid zone with a four-lane highway slapped down in the middle of it. That is, nowadays, the way in which American deserts are usually seen—that legendary, hallucinating view through the windshield of an endless ribbon of blacktop or smeared concrete being devoured somewhere under the front of the car and—in the rear view mirror—being discharged out back." - Reyner Banham

Dwelling Perspective

Exploring spatial and temporal scales of the medium of photography as a way to understand human perception of landscape. Starting with a photograph and the novel approach of a decisive moment captured by a camera, the physical image is subjected to chemistry treatments to reverse the single exposure into an expansion of time and re-recorded. The act of recording destroys the original moment or exposure, resulting in a canvas of white light.

Exposed Imagining topographic layers as slices in time, artifacts were collected along the deeply exposed banks of Shasta Lake Reservoir in CA. They remain evidence of boaters, campers, day-trippers, and the stark rise and fall of the reservoir’s w — ExposedImagining topographic layers as slices in time, artifacts were collected along the deeply exposed banks of Shasta Lake Reservoir in CA. They remain evidence of boaters, campers, day-trippers, and the stark rise and fall of the reservoir’s water levels due to drought, fire, and power needs. Features a removable topographic map for artifact locations with exposed terrain elevations.