ERECTUS DYSFUNCTION, 2018
This series is a metaphoric rumination on diminished physical prowess, loss of collective agency and environmental dystopia made in response to my own aging process, the 2016 Presidential Election, the MeToo movement, and climate warming. This reimagined landscape is littered with collapsed, desiccated ancient geological fragments, set off in stark contrast by a featureless sky. Classic modernist landscape photography is aggressively challenged as pareidolic shapes shamelessly suggest human form. Photographed at the City of Rocks State Park in New Mexico, these bedrock formations were created 15 million years ago by a volcanic eruption.