Unsettled Present (2021)

Statement

Like all things, mountains, trees, and creeks are just temporary arrangements. Matter comes together; matter falls apart. These processes can happen suddenly or gradually, as in an earthquake or the slow carving of a creek’s path. From my own naive perspective, land can feel stable and solid, even though I know that it is not.

In effort to better intuit places as unstable, as evolving over time scales that I cannot really understand, I have cut and reassembled conventional landscape photographs. A simple slice or shift can transform what we are looking at into something new: a landscape perpetually unsettled and still becoming.

Description

Each piece in Unsettled Present is a hand-cut construction from archival pigment prints. Each is signed, titled, and dated on back.

Becoming the Valley, 2021. 28 × 20.5 cm, unique.
Moving Mountain, 2021. 33 × 22 cm, unique.
Three Hills, 2021. 41.5 × 23.5 cm, ed. 1 + AP.
Tumbled into Place, 2021. 29.5 × 28.5 cm, unique.
New Mountain, 2021. 37.5 × 22 cm, unique.
Each Follows the Forest, 2021. 22.5 × 26 cm, unique.
Meander Belt, 2021. 27.5 × 22 cm, ed. 1 + AP.
Old Trail, 2021. 23 × 14 cm, unique.
Shearing Forces, 2021. 14.5 × 11.5cm, unique.
New Tree, 2021. 12 × 14 cm, unique.
The Latest in a Line, 2021. 21 × 16 cm, unique.
Local Minima, 2021. 37.5 × 27 cm, unique.
Divergence, 2021. 38.5 × 25 cm, unique.