terrane

2021-ongoing

Terrane explores the concept of relative transience by depicting botanical forms intermingled with geologic forms. While the transience of nature is an understood truth, it minimizes the human experience of permanence. Geologic change, while constant, exists more-or-less outside human perception and is irrelevant to our experience. Botanical change, on the other hand, with its constant growth and seasonality, are analogous to anthropocentric change. Geologic forms, persistent and immutable, are both past and future. Botanical form is singular to its time and location, and are perfect expressions of the present.

A terrane is a fragment of geologic crust that is distinct from the geology around it. The images in this series were all made on the Crescent, Pacific Rim and Wrangellia terranes.

Each image in this series is a temporal grafting, layering the perceptive transience of botanical forms over the perceptive permanence of geology. This layering creates an intimately sublime experience, but not a sublimity brought on by confrontation with a vast and formidable landscape, but rather by the sudden perception of deep time.