Landscapes in TensionA Photographic exploration of transitional spaces in the Southwestern environment.Harwood Art Center Front Gallery January 4-29, 2000The intent of this exhibit is to bring into form a quality of experience that is frequently hidden by our preconceptions of beauty, landscape, nature, and the urban setting. As modern dwellers within a post-industrial material culture our encounters with the natural urban environment are mediated and largely unconscious. Through my photography I strive to bring one small piece of that encounter into a visual expression that can help us grasp another dimension of experience. In these photographs I explore the intricacies and tensions inherent in the modern southwestern environment. I seek out spaces that possess an inherent natural beauty but that also betray a legacy of the human encounter. My intent is not so much to decry the desecration of the purity of the natural, but to seek to encounter, whether it be in a predominantly wild place or in a predominantly urban place, a transformative presence that enables the human, the man-made and the natural to co-exist.
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