Glasslands, Commons

Approaching a photographic landscape tradition that embraces poetic concepts of image produced through hand-eye exercises. I replace the lens of my camera with a myriad of glass objects found or manufactured in and around the city of Lancaster, which holds a long history in manufacturing, with Anchor Hocking glass and Lancaster Glass plants going back to the 1940's when this town made the cover of Forbes magazine as the quintessential American dream. The collapse of this industry was a metaphorical shattered lens through which community and personal histories become distorted. My "Glassland, Commons" series pairs photographic documentation and creative perspective on the landscapes and geographic region of south east Ohio, namely the town of Lancaster. Documentation of this place through abstraction, landscape (real and imagined) and industrial and pedestrian objects are a means of accessing ideas about past and present identities of this region.