Artist Statement
Turn A Blind Eye traces the American landscape as a site of inheritance, instability, and reckoning. Photographed across the western United States, the series moves through deserts, forests, coastlines, and rural towns, observing places where systems persist even as belief begins to erode.
The work unfolds as a gradual descent—from architecture toward fire, residue, weather, and atmosphere. Roads, utility poles, churches, homes, and industrial structures appear throughout the series not as monuments or ruins, but as frameworks: physical expressions of expansion, extraction, and permanence that continue to shape the land long after their certainty has thinned.
Rather than documenting catastrophe directly, the photographs linger in its wake. A leaning house, a burned hillside, fractured interiors, floodwater, smoke, and drifting fog suggest a condition of slow destabilization rather than singular collapse. Black-and-white images emphasize structure and endurance, while color emerges through combustion, erosion, and environmental consequence.
A recurring vocabulary of obstruction—boarded windows, fences, blackened facades, veiled horizons—runs throughout the work. In this context, blindness becomes incremental: not the inability to see, but the learned habit of looking away.
As the sequence progresses, the landscape shifts from description toward absorption. Water, smoke, darkness, and light begin to dissolve fixed forms. Human presence recedes, leaving behind traces, scars, and altered terrain.
Rather than offering resolution, Turn A Blind Eye situates the viewer within a landscape where consequence is already unfolding, asking how places carry memory, violence, and belief long after the structures that produced them begin to fail.
