Nature and landscape

You must be careful in the forest

Broken glass and rusty nails.

Tom Waits - Just the Right Bullets

 

This phrase and the emotional truth behind it describes my early experience the woods, as a place where people do bad things unseen by public eyes. I find beauty in the forests more often now, although I recognize the places I visit have been largely shaped by humans. On the East Coast of the U.S., the forests were inhabited since before Europeans arrived, but it was the Colonists who turned to the mountains, building homesteads and farms in their wake. No old growth forests remain in the East, the contours of the land betray the foundation of an old house, or cemetery.

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I approach these landscapes with conflicting preconceptions and emotions; trying to capture both the scars and the sublime in my prints.