quick & easy is a body of work that is in progress, focusing on the void present in the built environment of the Great Plains. Vacancy is the vernacular of Middle America. Fueling a nation rife with overconsumption and unrelenting growth, the Midwest feigns its own advancement through continual alteration of structure, often hasty and overbuilt. There is an eeriness found in this facade of progressive growth. It is this silent tension that I aim to capture in photography. This tension is found in signs, structures, and emptying reservoirs. Offering more questions than answers this is an existential project focused on the modern ruins left by the pursuit of individual oases. Pairing images with poetic text I explore the evaporative nature of human culture through structure.
quick & easy 2019-