Stone Choir
Photographs of the Southwest through history, archaeology, and old light.
Stone Choir is a film-forward study of the Southwest through landscape, archaeology, and old light.
Drawn to desert landscapes, Ancestral Pueblo ruins, adobe structures, mission walls, desert landscapes, and the quiet evidence of earlier cultures, the work explores places where the past still feels close to the surface. The title comes from a song by the folk rock band, Assembly of Dust that evokes, for me, storytelling from an ancient age a fitting phrase for landscapes and ruins that seem silent, but never empty.
Made mostly on film and shaped with warm monochrome toning, vignetting, grain, and character-driven lenses, the project pays quiet homage to the tonal depth and atmosphere of Edward Curtis’s photogravures while remaining a personal exploration of the Southwest and its long memory.
