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Midwest
Living is essentially about habitat - who we are through how we live
and how we construct our surrounding environment. Yi-Fu Tuan wrote,
in his recent book, Place, Art, and Self, "As for our
identity, it is anchored in common objects and experiences to a degree
we seldom acknowledge."
This photographic series is a document of the everyday
spaces and places within a small community in the American Midwest.
It is a series of photographs that looks at how we divide space, make
room for ourselves, and literally build an identity on the land. The
photographs also look at how our built order can easily become chaos
over time, as weeds grow and houses go without care. But it is in this
shift that we begin to see our role in the natural world and our contribution
to its continuity.
The photographs contain fences, side yards, and telephone
poles, yet they also contain a catalyst for questioning our own understanding
of beauty and nature—and in the end our sense of place in the
world transcendent of any geographic particularity.
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