This body of work looks at records and traces of human intervention left behind by our ancestors, acting as documents inscribed in the landscape.  When we enter into a special place in the landscape, we move through it, taking in not only the symbols that have been painted and etched on to its surface, but also the mythology of that space.  Photographing becomes an intuitive exercise rather than a methodical search for meaning within form.  Later this exploration takes place in the darkroom where negatives are transposed, photographs then cut and reassembled.  Inquiries arise while photographing the Copper Works about what gives petroglyphs their sacred charge?  Can graffiti carefully etched into a petroglyph site also have a sacred charge?  At what point does graffiti go beyond a contemporary etching or tag mark to become historical documentation? When does it become protected and sacred like the inscriptions in petroglyph sites?

Photographs are produced as Open Editioned Light Jet Prints on Archival Water Colour Paper.