There are people in these pictures. They are just absent from the frame. By examining the discarded artifacts and forgotten places they left behind, I uncover traces of the people who are no longer here. Shattered glass and various objects left behind indicate that people left in haste. With no other information beyond these artifacts, these places show us the roll and sway of time, the impermanence of things. The viewers are allowed to find context for these objects from their own perspective, and in doing so they reach out and connect to the lost context.
These images reveal the dichotomy between simplistic beauty and unremitting hardship. To portray the solitary beauty in the decaying, the mundane, and the abandoned at the end of an era I photograph my south .
