Evening walk down Airport Road, a residential, light industrial, verge of Wisconsin River wetlands mixed use landscape. Wilderness, industry and family homes collide in a kind of rural, blue collar pastoral. Which vista is sublime, which ridiculous? My beautiful cement factory, illuminated like a Byzantine icon. Where do we even begin to draw the distinction, when everywhere is altered and nowhere pristine, not even Yosemite Valley.
Because I see it everyday even the factory parking lot has gained meaning; for me and also for all who have worked/ work there- does our constant regard lend it an aesthetic also?I’m becoming obsessive about these kind of visual questions. Maybe it’s not healthy 😉
Antique Fairgrounds’ Clouds
These flat shots are all preliminary study done with a Samsung G4 phone, of subjects I’ll revisit to build out with the DSLR. Under the influence: Reframing the New Topographics
Packaging factory shiftworkers’ parking lot
Along the Wisconsin River floodplain
Sunset and cement, Highway 133 W, Boscobel
Define Beauty. Sunset, Hgwy 133 W. Boscobel
Notice the Red Truck
Near the Antique Fairground, Airport Rd
Driftless World 