Time Is Where I Stand
Time Is Where I Stand is a series of landscape photographs that include images of both White Sands National Park and the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument. The series expands my exploration of the visual equivalent of the passage of time and the remembered place.
My work captures glimpses of places and experiences that remain in my memory long after I have departed the location. My photographs use long exposures with planned camera movement that result in some areas of the image becoming blurred and some areas remaining pin sharp. This technique mimics memory by recalling the sharp fragments of certain moments, while capturing the total experience as the blending of time, colors, lines and shapes.
Most traditional landscape photography that captures the sharp details of a beautiful location as if looking through a window creating a monument to the static moment is unlike my work which does not seek to capture those moments. I choose to find the place where the layers of sky, land, time and memory all intersect.
