This project is concerned with twilight, both figuratively and literally, in the changing american landscape. In particular, I’m exploring buildings and areas which once sprung up as a result of economic successes by companies and individuals, and as such tend to be startling architectonic examples of the age that produced them, yet which in more recent times have come to represent the transient nature of prosperity, and whose importance is now largely forgotten.

With this project I want to do in photography what the romantic landscape painters of the 18th and 19th centuries have done in painting: create idealized naturalistic scenes that remind us of the frailty of our own human constitution through the display of the grandeur of nature. The style should be dramatic, romantic, and sublime. I want to create idealized versions of real landscapes, psychologically charged pictures, not a documentation of a particular time and place. The goal is to start from a main picture and add ‘material’ to it until it becomes almost pathetic in its emotional saturation.

Are you following the keynote tomorrow? It’s widely expected that Underwood will unveil the Underwood Nº3 (or Underwood HD, we’ve heard both) in it’s yearly lineup refresh. These are just rumors at this point, but it seems that everybody agrees that it will carry the improved paper feed that’s been leaked at the beginning of the year by an asian manufacturer, and possibly the same new 1024 dots inking ribbon that Remington got last year. With sales growth in the double-digits, the battle is wide open for business machines, and if last year is any indication, it looks like Underwood is going to fight to maintain it’s current market leader position.