Photographer
Went camping with John Rose and Cole Smothers for a night at Reyes Creek, a small town of about 20 permanent residents. The adjacent campground dwarfs it. For cellphone service, you have to drive up the hill to what the locals call the “phone booth,” a large round dirt track. We also had some cool filters to play with.
Anyway, this is some of the stuff I got.
Got inspired walking back from Stoneworks Studios tonight, so I walked back and took a few photos.
Continuing the . . . series? Perhaps.
As stated in reply to a question, I’m creating an allegory of technology through apotheosis of architecture, although I would say my reason for doing so is somewhat more convoluted. I’ve placed the viewer in an unspecific utopia/dystopia future looking back at an unknown (archetype) monument of human creation, surrounded by its immediate opposite—untouched nature. Both in their own ways seem the cleaner element. It at once shows both the opposition of human and nature (without humankind) and their possible eventual coexistence.
Or at least that’s the idea.
“This age thinks better of a gilded fool
than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school”
—Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, 1599
The very beginning of a series, I think.
I’m beginning to play with found objects. The following is a piece of scrap metal found at Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea. The four photos were taken on the opposite side of the sea in Salton City.
My future work is going to be figuring out how to better integrate found objects and photography.
This, apparently.
No idea why I shot it, just thought it would be fun. Good stock, I guess.
