PROJECT STATEMENT
After people leave, the world does not become empty.
I try to recognize traces of the world's presence in places shaped, occupied and abandoned by people, then exposed again to nature. Earth mounds, ruins, wires, weeds, water, old rooms, firelight and night roads are no longer only concrete scenes here; they feel like low voices left by time.
Trees keep growing, old furniture slowly decays, and images on walls and remaining objects stubbornly preserve evidence that life once happened here. Abandonment is not only the disuse of physical space; it is the silence left after people and land, order and memory slowly come apart.
For me, this series does not look at desolation itself, but at how land and space slowly reveal their own time after human will withdraws, and how things continue to exist in quiet.
The viewing sequence begins with ground, then moves through empty rooms, old objects, woods, water and mist before arriving at night and fire.
Work Index
An index arranged in the final viewing order.
Abandoned places are not waiting for people to return.They continue, in their own time, to absorb the traces people left behind.