Forms and Forces
Ice, current, fire, and weather leave their work in the landscape. A pale trunk bends among burned trees; a mountain comes apart in ripples. These photographs linger where a shape holds, and where it begins to change.
A Small Measure of Red
A red canoe rests between the mountain and its reflection. Across this expanse of stone and water, its smallness becomes a measure of everything around it.
The Bend Continues
A pale trunk turns through a forest of upright, blackened trees. Across two adjoining frames, the movement changes register from monochrome to color. The work is read as one passage, with each frame continuing the other.
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A pale trunk turns among the upright remnants of the forest. Read with the adjoining frame, its curve begins a movement that neither photograph contains alone.
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The pale trunk carries the eye onward, through blackened wood and cold blue sky. Color enters the passage; the two frames remain one unfolding work.
The Last Warmth
Orange light rests on the glacier beneath a deepening blue sky. A small cloud catches it too, briefly joining snow and air in the same warmth.
What Water Does to a Line
Layers of rock meet a moving current; upright trees enter their green reflection. Across the two photographs, lines held by the land become less certain in water.
Stone Keeps the Hours
The cliff lays out its layers beside the river. Water passes across their edges, bringing the long duration of stone into the present tense.
The Forest Below
Burned trunks rise above golden grass and descend into green water. Along the shore, the forest finds another form, less certain of its footing.
From the Peaks, Downward
Morning touches the peaks above a lake. A gorge draws the view into stone, and white water passes a wooded island. The three photographs carry attention from distant height toward the force close at hand.
Morning Reaches the Water
The peaks catch the first warmth while stones and fallen wood remain in the cool foreground. Morning travels down the mountain by way of its reflection.
The Mountain Opens
A river cuts between layered walls of rock. Beyond the narrow passage, forest and distant peaks open into weather.
Where the Trees Remain
Water spills around a wooded island and over the dark ledges below. The trees gather in the middle of a movement that continues past them.
Two Measures of White
Cloud and glacier meet above the dark mountain. Their whites belong to different measures of time.
A Mountain in Three Passages
A small canoe moves through three views of mountain and lake. Each frame redistributes the weight of stone, forest, and reflection around that slight human presence.
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The mountain rises from the lake; a small canoe gives the distance a human scale. This first passage opens the relation between shore, water, and height.
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The mountain enters the water again. In this second passage, its reflection draws the eye below the shoreline.
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Rock and reflected rock share the lake. The third passage returns to the mountain through the surface that carries it.
Eyes of the Current
Two pools look out from the dark rock while white water runs above them. For a moment, the river seems to have a face.
The River Finds a Way
Water enters the gorge as a pale line and gathers beneath an opening in the rock. These two views follow the current through places that narrow its passage.
A Light Between Walls
Pale turquoise water enters the shadow of the gorge. Branches lean across the opening, and the river carries the light farther in.
Under the Stone
Through an opening in the rock, the current gathers into white folds. The stone gives its force a narrow place to pass.