Dust of Eden
‘Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.’
- Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses)
Dust of Eden is a reflection on the impermanence of home. The photographs in this series are simple, intuitive landscapes taken during frequent travels through the High Plains of Oklahoma - the place I was born and abruptly left as a young man.
Ravaged by the Dust Bowl, the High Plains was the epicenter of the most significant anthropogenic disaster in American history. An ill-fated land immersed in the shadow of grief and abandonment. A land in which I share a deep connection - a communion with the dust.