For me, home is a 1200 acre farm in eastern North Dakota. Since 1884, it has passed from one generation of my family to the next. Now that the state’s population is declining as young people move away—including my siblings and I—my family’s association with the land will inevitably end with my parents. I combine old family photographs, journals, documents, and maps with my black and white images to explore the farm as a palimpsest and as a specific example of the growing Midwestern exodus that National Geographic highlighted in January 2008.
I use traditional black and white photographic processes to equalize my images with ones appropriated from family albums. Time is obscured amongst them. There is also a direct relationship between process and content: the abandonment of this once-standard photographic process for new digital technologies conceptually parallels family farming traditions. I want others to witness the depopulation and shifting lifestyles in North Dakota and to question the consequences of such changes.
Stone Temple Pilots song from a warped mixtape.
Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
Loose tape fragments found today. It seems to be a mixtape of love songs.
Location: Deep Lake Road, Antioch, IL
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Take Me to the Water.
Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950.
Mississippi River Meander Belt
Cueva de los Cristales is the incarnation of our most awesome science fiction imaginations - Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. At about the same time as humans first ventured out of Africa, these crystals began to slowly grow. For half a million years they remained protected and nurtured by a womb of hot hydrothermal fluids rich with minerals.
http://www.ironammonite.com/2009/12/surviving-cueva-de-los-cristales-giant.html
