These images are from a project titled Meandering with Purpose. The landscape has been a recurring subject in my work since I began working as an artist. Recently, I found myself reminiscing about how much I miss the freedom that I felt when I was a much younger artist: the creative freedom that came from taking one’s time to wander, or to meander, with the sole purpose of being open to any and all situations that one might intentionally or inadvertently happen upon. Therefore, after spending many years trying various ways of working and exploring many different types of content, I decided circle back to the approach and subject matter that made me want to make photographs in the first place. This work is an exploration of the vast space that exists between photographs that function as objective records and those that dissolve into total abstraction. While each image may fall at a specific point along the continuum between these two extremes, what remains consistent across all of them is their dependence upon the specificity of place. In this case, the place is one of the most photographed cities in the world, Washington, DC. As I look back over my past projects and the works by the artists who have served as inspiration, my primary hope is that by returning to an earlier approach to image making I am creating a cohesive body of work that continues to question the boundaries of, and identifies new relationships between, representation and abstraction in photography.
