The Invisible Landscape

Ever since first carrying my camera into the landscape, I have been fascinated by the interaction of light, water, and flora at the water’s edge. In these malleable landscapes, the movement of a cloud, or leaf, or a breath of air continually alters the scene before me. I can rarely visualize a complete image, but instead must sit thigh-deep in the water immersed in my subject and respond to the changes around me. Creating each image is an experiment. 

As I photograph, a composition can look complete and meaningful in one moment and random and disordered in the next. I try to discover that edge. I try to push the balance between what is known—the shape and size of a leaf—and what is difficult to interpret: the scale and orientation of the space, the interplay of figure and ground, the physical nature of the objects and surface. In this way, I challenge myself to look deeper. To expand my imagination and see in these ephemeral landscapes what I could not before.