I would have my photographs serve as a mirror of who I am, not what or where I've been. Though I make them here and there, among the canyons, the mesas, the mountains, and the flat lands of my Colorado Plateau home, they are not those places. I tend to photograph places that I'm drawn to by stirrings within me. Sometimes they are preserved. Such is that case with the two areas exhibited here. This book features images from Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, and the White Pocket area of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument. I've chosen to exhibit them together within this book because of all the lands that I've visited within the western United States these two have a very similar visual spirit. They excite me in a way others don't. Lines. It's the lines and how these two landscapes have been molded in such a special way by nature's hand. The movement of the land is laid bare here. I've had the good fortune to know and work creatively with a number of creative modern dancers in my time and so this book gives me the opportunity to acknowledge their friendship, which has certainly inspired my vision of the landscape. It moves me internally when I'm standing there with my tripod. I don't dance, but in these images, I know I can.
