EARTH FORMS
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming & Newberry Volcano, Oregon
2020–2025
Earth Forms is a series of photographs made at sites of active and residual volcanic force.
At Yellowstone’s geyser basins, mineral-rich water leaves iron oxide stains across sediment in patterns that resist easy reading. The eye searches for scale and finds none. At Newberry Volcano in Oregon, the largest volcano in the Cascade Arc, obsidian fields record lava that cooled so rapidly it became glass, its fracture lines preserved as they formed.
My architectural work is built on structure: geometry, order, the logic of how a space holds together. Earth Forms looks for the opposite. Here there is no structure to follow, only surfaces shaped by heat, water and time. Oxidation works into the organic materials over years, staining, splitting and breaking it down. The subject is in a constant state of coming apart.
The photographs follow the same process. Each image is made close and printed large, removing horizon and context until nothing is left to orient by. What remains is surface: geological time made visible and still, and an invitation to let the eye wander without being told where to go.
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