Elevations #62
Ely, Nevada
2017

Swept Away
Ely, Nevada
2017

Down the Tracks
Ely, Nevada
2017

Rolling Stock
Ely, Nevada
2017

A close-up view of some stockpiled railroad car wells.

No Admittance
Ely, Nevada
2017

The inclusion of politicians on the list of people prohibited from being on the property of the Nevada Northern Railway Company made me think it was a good place to work.

Hand of the Land
Death Valley National Park, California
2017

While photographing this pattern of dried mud, I noticed from a certain vantage point it took on a pattern reminiscent of the bones of a hand.

Here’s a video of an interview they did of me at the Maturango Museum the day of my exhibition opening. Mark Pahuta filmed and edited the video, Andrea Pelcher worked behind the scene, asking me questions to which I was responding.

Steampunk Sunflower
Death Valley National Park, California
2017

Another victim of the fire at Furnace Creek.

Firewall
Death Valley National Park, California
2017

A striking abstract on the wall of a burned out building.

Rapid Oxidation
Death Valley National Park, California
2017

This is a photo of some burned beams in a building at Furnace Creek in Death Valley. I wasn’t thinking about it when I took the photo, but in going back over the images from the trip on my computer when I got home I was struck by the similarities of this photo to some of those of the eroded landscape I’d taken at the Ubehebe crater earlier the same day. Compare the above to this one for example:

Ubehebe #8
Death Valley National Park, California
2017