Scale and Surface

Snow settles into fractures, clings to ledges and covers the surfaces beneath. Sometimes it makes the structure of rock more visible; sometimes it reduces a mountainside to a few lines and shapes.

Made in different landscapes, these photographs are concerned less with place than with how a surface can be read. Snow and photographic framing remove familiar clues of size and distance. A broad slope can become a pattern; a fragment of rock can suggest a much larger landscape. The boundary between surface and landscape becomes less certain.