My work is that of a lyricist. I work in poetry and photography, and shoot site-specific series that approach places as discovered entities — beings, rather than constructs, capable of possessing their own agency in the world. The methodology of my work is impersonal and restrained, and often arises from the friction between theory and the intimate experience of being out in the land. Forests are strange. The American myth of the dark woods is largely an inherited European narrative, formed in a different age, culture, and, most importantly, a different ecosystem — and worse yet, so much of that myth is projected onto young unsustainable monoculture forests that were the early attempts of reforestation in the post-war era. What then is the ‘true’ forest? “Old Growth” (2021) is a study of coastal redwoods, known as some of the few places of virgin forest in the continental United States. In equal measure, it focuses on the surface ecosystem (the actual redwoods and the many species that tend to accompany it), and the pathfinding within the forest — trails, brooks and the different levels of interventions created to accommodate the visitors.