This work is about trying to extend how I encounter landscape and my sense that photographing landscape, particularly with a focus on the “ordinary” , felt limiting. By describing a landscape through two perspectives I’m hoping to bring greater clarity, friction and in some cases a positive sense of confusion that leads to dialogue. A dialogue helps me, and I hope the viewer, to gain a different understanding and appreciation of how we look at landscape.

The images are based on the diptych format, by building a tension between two images of the same “thing”. In its essence the diptych inherently builds confrontation and comparison between two images creating a new whole and an understanding that can go beyond the single image. In the same way that we might ponder an object or a landscape from multiple perspectives, front to back or side to side, in order to gain a better understanding of its “whatness”, the goal of this work is to constrain these perspectives to create a single experience where two images’ conversation with each other can create a new image.