My ongoing Wellspring series is simultaneously a visual dialogue on water scarcity and resource management ideals in the American West, and a commentary on the Laws of Conservation of Energy/Matter. Through the lens of Utah landscapes, the scale of time and the recycling of matter into itself are boldly apparent, and inspires consideration of duality in the eternality and ephemerality of existence as it relates to land, body, and spirit.
I spend a significant amount of time in southern Utah among the grand buttes, mesas, and bluffs that have been sculpted into the land over millennia by water, wind, and the trod of animal foot and flight. I am mesmerized by erosion, and the ways we can find kinship between ourselves and the earth in the processes of shedding and adaptation.