Photo Series Category

These images were taken over twenty years in the North Coast woods of Mendocino County. They are part of a larger series of photographs documenting the hippy dwellings and seeking to create a portrait series of the commune family. The photographs document a intentional community of 10 families on 32 acres which was my childhood home. I was raised in a school bus for the first ten years of my life with no electricity or running water. The double exposure of my father shows the school bus in the background of the photograph. I have known these people my whole life, and watched the ebb and flow of life and death in this magical community. This series is a recollection on my life while my father was still alive and on the quiet spaces that country folk inhabit. It is part of a self-published book, Communal Child published as an artist proof in 2014.