Teenagers from Concord High School - where I graduated in 1986 - and weeds found along the adjacent Route 202.
Growing up in Wilmington, Delaware I always got the feeling that ideals of beauty were to be found elsewhere. Our fields and forests were bulldozed to expand suburbia without much notice. What was once farmland, small businesses and home to wildlife became sandpiles, big business opportunities and identikit housing.
My understanding of our relationship to nature and my vision as a photographer is very much linked to my American childhood. The capitalist idea of constant expansion, the individual ever moving forward, is how I experienced my landscape. Having hardly stepped out of a car as a child I am pulled toward the minutiae of roadside culture.
