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Artist Statement
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable, experience to be lost in the woods any time... not till we are completely lost, or turned round, - for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost, - do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Since my late teens, I have been taking solitary road trips, seeking to lose myself along back roads, and finding comfort in the vastness of my natural surroundings. For the Rooted series, I took to the road with my 8x10 camera and a portable darkroom in search of familiarity in the unfamiliar landscape of rural America. I made images using the wet collodion process because of its ability to render light slowly and reveal the passing of time. I am uprooted in my pilgrimage, but find myself grounded in the familiar strangeness of nature.
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