For me, one photograph no matter how beautiful or interesting, never seems to be enough.  I am drawn to repeating, juxtaposing, deconstructing, lining up and arranging several photographs together - searching for a moment when the totality of the combined images become something else entirely.  I don’t pre-visualize - I free fall.  

 

 This new series is the result of taking a single photograph of the exposed underbelly root system of a fallen tree, then flip repeat the same photo four times in a linear horizontal format.

 

 Strange, psychological, ancient, biological, spooky, archetypal, mysterious shapes appeared out of the intricate tangle of tree roots. The original photograph disappeared and something other worldly took its place.

 

 I returned many times to the fallen trees that line the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Paulto make more photographs of the exposed root systems that were washed clean by high water in the spring, then exposed and dried by the sun in the low water of fall.  I found the more simple the photograph, the more intricate and revelatory the construction became.

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 All these photo constructions are 10 x 56, archival digital prints, 2025.