the books        

The books are less about the frame and more about questioning the landscape form itself. They eliminate the horizon, manipulate elements of up and down orientation, and add drawn layers that repeat and echo their linear and planar characteristics.

Each image is realized by working it much like a painting so as the iconic character of the photographic subject of grass, vine, etc. lessens they become a response to the pattern languages found in the landscape. Each image or page in the books builds a narrative that share the two defining characteristics of written Classical Chinese poetry, graphic form and empty grammar. Read together like kanji characters in a poem, each image redescribes a place where all things rise and pass away with the seasons. They speak with the formal gesture of a calligraphy character while engaging the viewer in a dialogue between presence and absence.