ARTIST STATEMENT

Locus lo·cus n., pl. lo·ci
1. A locality or place.
2. A center or focus of great activity or intense concentration.

This series explores similarities between body and landscape. The body is removed from the intellectual realm and reconnected with the soil. The images resemble skin that has been marred by birth defects or scars and at the same time, aerial photography of a land that is unknown yet recognizable. The organic surfaces continually change and evolve, both naturally and unnaturally. The landscape moves as the skin breathes. It may be subtle and go unnoticed, but both are living and therefore growing.

These particular surfaces are indelibly branded with scars of the past. They are an unforgettable remembrance. A man's actions can cause the alteration of these surfaces. For example, war can permanently transform the landscape, forever changing the natural habitation and terrain, just as that same war can scar a man's skin. Both the landscape and the skin bear the marks of these events.

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