Land-Object
The trace of human intervention is common in the American landscape. Our view of nature thus cannot be wide-angle or unbroken, as it is crowded with discordant elements that often contradict and muddy our perceptions and expectations. We instead experience our surroundings selectively, filtering out what not necessary, ignoring what is irrelevant.   Through this process of filtering, we experience the landscape not as a whole, but as a collection of instances, fragments, specimens and objects.

Often what is noticed and selected is dependent on the presence of a man-made element.  The curve of a hill or the texture of vegetation is most visible when it is marked, divided or plotted. Such markers also situate the viewer: they offer scale, location and context.  Despite very different value and worth assigned to each, nature and human activity are oddly interdependent.  Together, they form fragments floating through our view.

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