American Timescapes

American Timescapes addresses the ephemerality of the American experience across deep time. Each artwork is comprised of three separate photographs of a landscape/region made minutes, hours, days, or years apart. These prints are cut, folded, and combined to create a 3-dimensional photo sculpture. Deep time is a concept championed by geologists and astronomers, the ones among us who interpret long ago events recorded within our Earth’s geological features and far-away planets and stars. Across my work, I juxtapose the concept of deep time with storytelling. Stories are the pillars of the self, showing us who have been, who we are now, and who we are becoming — and yet, stories are intangible as they slide across time, far beyond the scope of a single human lifetime. American Timescapes presents a variety of American landscapes as time-compressed “stages” upon which countless human stories have already played out. It is my hope that these time-sliced landscapes — some with fleeting characters or props — might register as a flattening of the past, present, and future into something resembling an infinite instant. I hope to encourage insights about what we, as the current custodians of this time and place, might owe our descendants. Our story is also their story. All pieces are 15" X 15" photo sculptures printed on double-sided cotton rag paper. Each 3-dimensional photo-sculpture is secured with PH neutral glue. Framed custom shadow box at 23.5" x 23.5" x 1.75"