"Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again"

- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust (2000)

Throughout my travels between the Northeast, Midwest and Southwest of the United States, I have perceived the journey and destination as one perpetual experience. The photographs in this book explore my relationship to place, which has been stretched or shrunk, rendering the distance between myself and where I am infinite or negligible. Photographs made up-close gradually pull away to photographs made far from my subjects. This is an American narrative about a sensation of placelessness that ebbs and flows with time and movement through space. It is through this process and sequence that I ask the viewer as well as myself how we perceive place and the identities associated with it.

Images made from 2021 to 2023

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This series was made as part of my thesis for my MFA at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

First edition published independently through Sad Bird, 61 photographs, writing by Walker Downey, printed by Edition One in Richmond, CA. Edition of 5. NFS.
Copies of this edition are held by Illinois State University special collections and University of Massachusetts special collections.

For the pieces shown at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for my MFA thesis exhibition between March 28 and May 13:
30” x 40” archival inkjet prints mounted on gator board, collecting available upon request.

Installation at the University of Massachusetts MFA Thesis exhibition, March to May 2023