Red Roof, Iceland Photograph - Limited Edition of 6

From the Beyond the Horizon Series... On May 14, 2003, my father held my stepmother’s hand, closed his eyes and submitted to the disease that had slowly consumed him. After a long and debilitating battle, cancer finally conquered his body. His death left me heartbroken, confused and lost. My world suddenly appeared unfamiliar to me. In my search for comfort, I found it impossible to accept the seeming injustice of the cycle of life. Desperate to see the world again with the innocence that had been stolen from me, I began to travel, hoping that my camera could provide a means to understand and then move beyond my despair. Beyond the Horizon emerged during this period and has grown into a body of work that I will continue to build for the rest of my life. The photographs in this series reveal the relationship between humanity and nature to be delicate and interdependent. Small human figures on the banks of the River Ganges are neither masters of nor intruders upon the landscape they inhabit. Simply another element of nature, their existence, like the river itself, is in a constant state of flux. There are California mountains that have been thrust into the sky by the ever-shifting earth. And there are Spanish hills that once were mountains, no less beautiful in their diminished form. Ever-changing cloud formations in France are captured as they were at a single moment in time before that form was lost and replaced by another. New England fog hovers in the air, temporarily enveloping the landscape with its eerie beauty. Inevitably, there are human-made elements: buildings, wires, fences, roads. All of these, made from natural materials and temporarily suspended in their current form, are destined to return to the earth.