'The Edge of Some Dream' is a photographic survey of the Western coastline of the United States. The project begins at the Mexican border and, when completed, will end 3,000 miles to the north, where Washington meets Canada. The series is a study of the people, the settlements, and the natural landscapes that are all at the westernmost edge of a country that is today mired in debates on border walls, gun violence, economic prosperity, and environmental regulation. As the United States grows increasingly extremist and isolated, turning inward and finding itself, as historian Greg Grandin writes, “at the end of its myth,” I am curious about those of us who are still drawn to the edge, to looking out, to seeking hope and possibility when it could be so much easier to succumb to frustration and despair. Taking refuge in the ocean is nothing new. For Americans, the Western horizon holds the core of our ideological beginnings. In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner noted that the frontier “was a magic fountain of youth in which America continually bathed and was rejuvenated.” As an artist, much of my own creative motivations are centered around the physical and emotional sense of possibility that comes from the vastness of our country and its geography. The Pacific Ocean speaks to this possibility in both metaphor and visual expansiveness, and yet we have not always treated its coastline especially well. I am curious about this paradox, the way we can be drawn to, and find so much beauty in, something that we can simultaneously destroy, with trees cleared and homes built on top of each other to get the best view.