Through traveling around Tennessee this past summer and photographing the things I am drawn to, I have come to notice some repeated motifs in my own work. Certain physical phenomena that I am drawn to visually by the ideas that come from these visuals. Such as the buildings I have seen, and the things around them that help these cities and towns to function. The impermanence of these things began to interest me. I remember going to the squares of various small towns around Tennessee and noticing how quiet and empty they were. I wanted to bring that feeling into images of the big cities, As they one day will be empty and deserted.

 When I show these pictures to people they say it is about architecture, but to me architecture is just what was there at the time. People have created these monoliths of buildings to pack everyone in like sardines so we can sit and work at a desk. Monoliths powered by power lines; that we travel to on interstate highways. Monoliths made from the very materials that will grow to take them over again. How did it come to this? What will become of this?

The cohesive structure of this work is about how despite us coming this far with all of our structure, that this world is not ours but we are of it. This work is about our illusion of infrastructure. This idea is classically very innate to some, but in the West it is typically less spoken about or understood. Manifest destiny. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. These are more Western ideals. Alan Watts, an English writer, speaker and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularizing Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience, puts it like this: “We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the universe ‘peoples.’ Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”