CHOLLA
2006–2013
One of the primary concerns of my work is the duality between the beauty of the photograph as an physical object and the often destructive treatment of the landscape that revolves around the culture of recreation in my native Southern Californian desert.
This body of work is a three-part series that includes aerial photographs, photographs and objects collected from makeshift gun-ranges, and graffiti covered rocks. Examining these Mojave Desert artifacts in isolation serves to stand as a record of a culture seemingly-obsessed with leaving their destructive mark on the world.
