“...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Photographed in autumn in Arches National Park, this analogue series is an exploration of the tender balance of emotion that lies within the human experience and the visual response to finding oneself by ‘getting lost’ in the most vast landscapes in our natural world.
In her book ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’, writer Rebecca Solnit compares the color blue to distance, and also to “the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse”. The continuous use of the diptych is an intentional reflection on the balance between physically defined form and negative space, between shadows and the light, the tangible and the obscure, and the vastness of emotion and narrative that can be found in the color blue.
