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I have always found myself to be interested in the seductive nature of photos and reductive repercussions of the camera. Images can confuse and answer questions about events or a place. The camera is a magic box which has the power to reconstitute a place once traveled into a reduced photographic form. The camera can flatten out a landscape by removing depth and altering its perspective.My recent work uses different strategies that question the realm of documentary and allude to the pictorial or hyper-real experience from looking at a landscape. I accomplish this process in the Unique Landscape series by cropping the image so that the horizon line appears within the format of a diamond shape rather than the normative rectangle. I merge the observed with the unexpected in Certain Possibility, where land and sky coalesce in a startling diptych. Throughout my practice, I am interested in the idea of the locale and the journey. As part of this exploration I have created large-scale images that contain black voids of missing imagery. I create scenarios where a portion of the terrain is obstructed and becomes a source of disconnect for the viewers. I aim to investigate the process of looking and how mediation of the image enhances the breadth of that experience.