Artist Statement

The cumulative effect of people on their environment motivates me to record an extended portrait of society in a simple and quiet manner. Recording barges of coal on the Yangtze River, boiling mud pots in northern Iceland, water management sites in central Taiwan, archeological digs in Trujillo, Peru, highway construction in Boston, golden beaches in the Lofoten Islands within the Arctic Circle of Norway allows me to rethink nature as a context. The Three Gorges Dam Project in China, which I visited in September of 2006, asserts changes in the modern landscape on a phenomenal scale. While these developments are orderly and labor-intensive they also have an unmistakable scope, hubris, and grandeur. Values unconsciously revealed in our physical surroundings are cultural truths. It is material evidence of who we are. It is our Industrial Heritage.