Between Land and Sky

In the body of work Between Land and Sky I chose from the beginning to be attuned to the often overlooked and ordinary events of everyday life that attract my attention – fleeting time and the changes in light and mood from one second to the next. The camera can capture these moments, but contingency and context are required to be able to see the difference between what was and what is. The work was inspired by a wish to create a series of images that mimics the sensory and visual cues that inform my recollection of that which is both highly personal but also true to experience. The physicality of that experience is condensed, or rather transmuted, into a sprinkling of space, color, visual, and even auditory phenomena. Although these images were shot in Alaska, they deliberately avoid being grounded to a specific location. The captured, fleeting moments are grounded in the photographic real; two summers and winters with my family here in South-Central Alaska, however, because these scenes are isolated from a larger continuum, the meaning of the images remains open-ended. The fragmentary views are both elusive and weightless, offering no more than a poetic pause or glimpse of the temporal and physical space that we inhabit.