“Wilderness & Luxury” encompasses the two basic materials contributing to these images: • wilderness, natural spaces designated as such for the purposes of preservation and recreation. The landscape as we encounter it in the moments of photography. •luxury, our ease of access to these spaces, paths made and facilities installed, the topmost layer of centuries of western society imposing a vision upon the land. This encompasses the colonial legacy, and in the San Francisco Bay Area, the reach of the US Military to re-engineer these spaces throughout the 20th century, and the following efforts to reimagine the results of that work for the purposes of recreation and leisure.
 Through a concentrated period over the summer of 2024, I explored the friction of these two elements on 35mm film, revisiting location again & again. “Now” this is a space for moderately ambitious dog walkers, school groups, distance runners...when was it a palette for equally ambitious graffiti artists, adapted from a Cold War missile site, in a county named after Spanish Colonial historical figures. This is a lot to hold when what comes through the layers of glass and exposed on film is the landscape, sometimes only whispering this heritage. “Wilderness & Luxury,” a project initiated in 2020, continues to iterate and diverge through repeated visits to locations in the Bay Area, the unceded lands of the Me-Wuk (Coast Miwok), Ohlone Ramaytush, and Awaswas nations.