I've spent much of my life in the American Southwest - its backroads, boom towns, deserts, and public lands. What first drew me to the Colorado Plateau was its geology, but over time that fascination expanded into a deeper engagement with the region's cultural histories, cosmologies, and ways of knowing.

As an educator, I live by the semester system. When the work is done, I head west or south (often both…) from my home in Boulder, Colorado. I go out there simply to go inside.

This is the truest artistic process I know: moving between intention and surrender, allowing uncertainty to direct the work. The photographs emerge through attention rather than pursuit, from inhabiting a place long enough for it to begin looking back.

The Garden is one expression of this ongoing practice. Oscillating between abstraction and representation - horses, hoodoos, weather, and vast, indifferent skies - the photographs use the landscape less as subject than as a condition for perception.

More than a meditation on the American Southwest, The Garden is a lens-based inquiry into attention, presence, and the quiet work of being.