Urban Landscapes: Images of the Constructed and Deconstructed Landscape

This series depcts the relationship between empt spaces, previously occupied by workers and communties, spaces left to their own devices, and spaces undergoing renewal and construction. The individual's interaction and entanglement with nature and the detritus that emerges propels the work.

In the 1960's Baltimore's industry underwent an immense crisis. The city lost two thirds of its industrial jobs, and many manufacturers closed or downsized. For this reason, there is an abundance of abandoned industrial sites in the city. Deterioration and runi run rampant throughout. Many of these spaces are uninhabited, but nature continues to transform the landscape.