mobile landscape

"I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly." - Clarisse, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

When I travel by car, I am still. Physically, I am restrained and confined, while simultaneously careening along a highway. I am able to see miles upon miles, while hardly seeing much. 

As a resident of Los Angeles, I am a member of a culture which spends an inordinate amount of time in vehicular isolation. With my images, I meditate on this experience of combined stillness and movement, isolation and community. In Mobile Landscape, I embrace these contradictions, creating an immobile blend, a blur, of what flies by just outside my window. In my images, the specifics, the grass or flowers, are unclear, at once visible and opaque.

Everyday in my car, I am quite literally passing life by. In my daily commute to work, my trip to the grocery store, or even in my jaunt into the mountains, I drive past hundreds of homes and businesses. I zip past thousands of people, most of whom I will never meet. I daydream as my eyes pass over hillsides I will never hike and roads I will never explore. All the while, I am surrounded by a community of others, and together we blindly drive on. 

(Some of these images are now available for purchase online at giveArtfully.)