Statement
Attitude affects the perception of our surroundings. I investigate the attitudes that are the desire to change the landscape, and the understanding of a particular place. My work combines images of contemporary urban areas on the verge of redevelopment as a point of comparison to romanticized representations of the American landscape, topography, and historic ideals. Though the images document areas of American on the verge of disappearing, the finished work is not a direct homage to landscape before or after industrialization; rather, it is an assessment of the nation's seemingly limitless potential. Ambiguous in tone, the works can be read as a glorification of development or as a reminder of the price of idealized progress.