While The Stars Look Down

While the Stars Look Down photographically depicts the alien like quality of a desert landscape captured under the veil of night. Creating imagery that both invokes cautious curiosity of the Mojave Desert’s biome while mysteriously presenting the endemic Joshua tree through the concepts of color, time, and light, I create imagery with the intention of stirring a visceral response. With over 8 years of documenting the Western Joshua tree and artistically contributing to the passage of the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, protective legislature which California recently passed for the endemic species, I have turned my attention to Joshua tree forests that exist on the fringes of the Mojave Desert in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, where the battle for survival amid the harshness of climate change and human encroachment is ever present.