Dust
The works in the Dust series were made concurrently with many of the Panavisions. They use imagery of deserts, horsemen, and desolation that ambiguously represent both the American mythic space of the old west and a variety of landscapes from the Islamic world from Moorish Spain to Central Asia. They use optical distortions that carefully create uncanny spacial illusions, confusing the microcosm of the studio tableaux with wider landscapes of the speculative imagination. All images are traditional gelatin silver prints with no digital manipulation.
Aside from the themes of landscape, culture, and narrative archaeology these images share with the Panavisions, thes images share the visual theme of spacial conflict and mismatched visual syntax with a number of other projects, especially those appearing in the Anamorphic and Nature Morte galleries.