>>3890076My photography tracks my interest in the history of my area, which broaches the complex topic of my own geneology, and my interest in a set of reoccuring symbols that date to the ancestral native culture of the area that have a fascinating superficial resemblance to the iconography of the middle east and to the beliefs in reincarnation that existed in Egypt prior to the Osiris heresy and the innovation of mummification.
It's a somewhat mysterious history that was wiped out by the colonization of our current country, which is itself a more complex story than is known to the average American.
And you can't tell the story of why it's so mysterious without touching on how fragile the worlds we as humans construct are, like these places I remember from my childhood that are slowly disappearing into the ground, despite being made of much more substance than the mounds of dirt that were for so very long the largest structures in my area.
If you stopped looking for confirmation bias towards your prescriptive judgements of my body of work, it's not difficult to see I'm sticking a needle and thread (my camera) through the intersection of my interests in:
history
architecture
symbolism
culture
conquest
and collapse
Is an optical recreation of an unidentified flying object I saw 5 years ago art? Or is it history?
One shouldn't tailor the message of their work to the lowest common denominator of disinterested pedestrians. That's too crass. Far better to leave easter eggs and hidden paths for the enlightened and curious viewer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWAFMR5PNg 
