Days Among Stones
“Each city receives it’s form from the desert it opposes.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Drawing from a long tradition of American landscape painting and photography, this series of images, taken at the Joshua Tree National Monument, celebrates light, color and form in ways that breaks from naturalism by moving the pictorial into the abstract and moving naturalism into the realm of visual science fiction.
We can choose to see the world as it is, but as artists, we attempt to capture it - to change it and to express it. These images explore the radicalism of this change, deeply informed by fiction and color field painting, they present the world through alien eyes.
By looking at these unique earthly forms in new ways, we can construct a new appreciation for the world surrounding us and other worlds beyond.
The images were captured on a Hasselblad camera and are printed on Crystal Archive Professional Maxima fused under acrylic glass.