2015-2021
In Joshua Tree National Park this month, I came across an empty door way and window—the remnants of Wonderland Ranch—which now frame the landscape. I had not taken a photograph with my camera in years, and when revisiting my photographs, I saw a recurrent attention to frames. A modernist, self-referential impulse, these frames-in-frames resonate with the format of a photograph. But these frames also reveal things about the landscapes we encounter.
A frame can be a doorway or windows (in a home, boat, or car) but also infrastructure like handrails or the beginnings of a construction site. Each offer a way of engaging, encountering, or building up space. Foregrounding them hopefully reveals frames as a way of providing more information to a scene—capturing the technologies through which the world is made legible.
