The Era of Hopeful Monsters

The Era of Hopeful Monsters, from which these images were selected, examines the overlooked marks we make on our environment on both a personal and cultural scale. In the places we consider natural, there are human interventions, intentional and accidental. No matter where you go, you will find breadcrumbs and fingerprints of our restless species. From paved pathways cutting through a cave, obsessively manicured hedges, initials carved en mass in an old growth forest or air plane contrails slashed across the sky. This body of work takes a critical an empathetic look at how we envision our collective identity in relationship to our environment. Whether it is urban, our few remaining wild spaces or, as is most often the case, somewhere in between: a mixed geography of concrete and wildflowers. These images find the beauty, the humor and the bittersweet in our contemporary environment, taking in each moment for what it is and what it says about our species.