Parallel Landscapes
From 1990 to 1993 I chronicled the continuing metamorphosis of a huge construction site in the southwest corner of San Francisco. The initial excavation gave way to foundations; foundations to walls and columns; walls and columns to enclosed rooms and cavernous chambers. It was a mythic hydra of steel and stone: growing new heads, sprouting appendages, shedding and regenerating its skin, and constantly revealing itself anew. Sunshine and open sky gave way to what little daylight could find its way through doors or skylights. Powerful halogen lamps illuminated the darkened depths. As they were completed, entire buildings were backfilled beneath the sand. It was as if it were a massive archeological dig, somehow thrown into reverse. It was the landscape I had always dreamed of.
Parallel Landscapes, the book of this body of work, was published in 2016
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