Vanished in Time

This collection of long-exposure photographs is part of an on-going series I’m making of trains as transfigurations on the landscape. These photographs take into consideration geocentric ideas of time, as well as the abstract nature of time expressed by the motion of a speeding train blurred against the much slower moving geology of the surrounding landscape. The lack of people and animals is an acknowledgement to the darker history of the American railroad in how the quest to annihilate time and shorten distance also annihilated human’s relationship with nature as evidenced in the extermination of Indigenous people living on the Plains, and the Buffalo they relied upon to survive.