"Nothing is ever the way they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize." -Diane Arbus
UrbanScapes
For a while now, I’ve felt that there’s a growing body of my work that doesn’t fit with the rural landscape images shot in Washington, Montana and New Mexico. It’s stuff that I shoot without as much intention as the others, things that I’m drawn to, found in urban and suburban areas. Sometimes they’re in my home town or a place that I’ve traveled to for work. I see little slices of life in these places that have become sub-groups, such as puddles, graffiti, metal details, worn paint, and sometimes people in these environments. Much of the time, they’re just studies in composition or color. And more often that not, they’re found while I’m doing something else. I’ve wanted to do something with these in the past, but felt none of them ever fit in.