My eye has been drawn, over the past few years, to the continuously evolving landscape and the different ways in which we go out into the world.  I am very interested in the way we interact with and separate ourselves from the world we live in.  The way we set up different barriers that prevent interaction in both physical and metaphorical ways.
From vistas that are reachable by car to swathes of woodland cut away to make room for high voltage power lines, the way that we experience the world has been shaped around us.   Everything has been designed for our convenience.  We alter the world around us to suite our current needs and to allow us the safest, most comfortable experience possible.  I am examining the altered landscape and the way that it has crept into our experience of the world.
Since so much of this has led to a way of experiencing that is largely based in looking, I have become increasingly interested in the voyeuristic aspect of looking and experiencing.   How we are exited enough just to look.  We are constantly forced to look through, or over, or from one place to another, never interacting with the object of our desire.  Always relegated to a specific place designed for looking.  Rarely are we able to break out of this mode. 
When we do break out it is still a result of man’s intervention.  In one of the photographs in this portfolio there is a mountain top lake with two kids swimming across.  This lake has become easily accessible because of a highway that goes right past as it makes it’s way over the mountain pass.  Does the road disturb the experience of this wilderness or does the road make this experience possible?
There is a give and take between experience and the method of experience.  Is it acceptable to destroy a swath of land for a road to save a larger area of wilderness?  To allow better access to certain areas?  Ultimately these are questions about control, authority, and social behavior.