ACCUMULATIONS
2002
20 x 16 x 1 inch case bound artist book, 20 pages with 15 chromogenic prints
Edition of 5
At the edge of the creek new leaves bud on branches that catch the skeletons of old ones and form a collected entity. Accumulations are the temporary result of the elements in motion, both dead and alive at the same time. Time, that is implicit in the layers that build up from water levels rising and falling. Shadows creep over water, roots creep downward, as the earth is washed away revealing a cross section and the beauty in the tangled mess of things.
Photography gives order to the natural chaos by focusing on the formal elements, establishing equivalences and coincidences of things disrupted. It fragments and isolates nature in an attempt to control it. It is evidence that the same world that exists in a vast landscape can also be explained in a five-inch section.
