Collection: To The Earth As It Was

In May of 2019, David discovered a deconstruction site not far from his apartment. Following this discovery, he spent the next three months visiting (and entering) this deconstruction site countless times with his camera. The site quickly became a sanctuary of sorts, and captured his imagination unlike any place he has photographed before or since. With each visit, as the building continued to erode and dematerialize, it began to reveal new textures, shapes, shadows, and perspectives, and offered a strange, yet much-needed sense of peace and solitude during a lowly period in his life. Having captured thousands of images from that site, David has since spent time editing, and more truthfully, contemplating exactly what drew him to this space, and why it resonated with him so strongly.

Coupled with these images are photographs David has captured in another of his favorite places, Death Valley National Park. Paired together, these images evoke an idea that has long driven David’s creative process, that of the ephemeral and fragile nature of human existence and enterprise. The transience of the ruined structure, in conjunction with the very essence of the desert itself, at once hostile yet continually changing, serves as an apt visual metaphor for the slow yet inevitable process of returning to dust.

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    Exit

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    Cloud Sand

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    Broken Up

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    White Bricks

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    Ruins

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    Salt River

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    Labyrinth

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    Wide Dunes

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    Alien Rock

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    Dark Plant

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    Rock Palm

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    Roots

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    Swan

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    Shale Curve

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