Brief Lives is a body of photographs which ask to what extent a place can be represented sheerly by its ephemeral characteristics. The work revolves around a field outside the house where I live. I grant sustained attention, sometimes over the course of years, to small and recurring objects and processes in the field.
The field has become a frame for me to watch things coming in and out of existence. It is bounded by the Connecticut River. This river valley played a part in the development of the tropes and ideology of American landscape art. With this history in mind, I take a novel approach to representing what it’s like to be in this landscape. I work toward creating a new set of possibilities for representing placeness.
