Statement:

These pictures aren't clever. In fact, they're usually found on the side of busy roads - the type of scene that thousands of people pass by each day. I spend a lot of time driving now that we live in Jacksonville, FL - the largest city in the US by land mass. After years of living in New York, I’m finally able to see the country in the same way that most Americans do - at 40 mph out the window of a car. The landscape coming at you that fast is a bit overwhelming, so it’s pretty easy to tune it out. As I drive, I take notes about locations to come back to with my 8x10 camera to make a picture. Each exposure is long - an attempt to see what is really there… a meditation of sorts… on where we are as a country and where we are going. All while hundreds or thousands of people pass by - each one comforted by their favorite music and numbed by the monotony of being in their car trying to get to their next destination as fast as possible. It’s a pretty fitting metaphor...