Ill Winds

My work functions as a signifier for the physical vulnerability we are experiencing in this age of the new millennium. "Ill Winds and Sour Waters" examines the hypothetical boundaries where city and rural landscapes meet and the dangers inherent in the melding of these two worlds.

One opens the newspaper to find experts voicing their concerns over the consumption of genetically modified foods; our President holds a news conference to congratulate those on the cusp of mapping the human genome; daily we are being introduced to new products that help up lead more anti-bacterial lives. Though there may be no Y2K post-apocalyptic vision in immediate site, my photographs depict a slower, more insidious landscape of quite turmoil.