I collaborated with fellow Arizona photographer Patrick O'Brien and the poets Lois Roma-Deeley, Scottsdale Poet Laureate, and Rosemarie Dombrowski, inaugural Phoenix Poet Laureate, over a period of 18 months to create Geology of Spirit, which culminated in gallery exhibitions and a book.
The work looks at how the processes and features of the desert Southwest mirror the human spirit. We rejected the typical landscape motif to use the visual and poetic metaphors of birth/death, wet/dry, shadow/light, and negative/positive space, to speak to two central themes:
· There is rebirth on the other side of decay.
· Something powerful abides within the transience of time.
You can see the full project here.