BIG SKY

Big Sky is a series of photographs that attempts to capture the vastness of the landscape by photographing the sky. The open vistas of the deserts and plateaus of the West make it difficult to separate the sky from an experience of the landscape. Given the unencumbered horizon line with very little vertical articulation, the sky descends to eye level to encompass the spectator. Instead of being simply overhead, the sky physically surrounds the spectator to become inseparable from the land. The resulting images are panoramas of the sky which have been digitally pieced together. Despite the fact that this series is a work about the landscape, 90% of the image is sky, with the actual landscape reduced to two thin framing bands on either end. This narrow horizontal structure draws the spectator into the sky with vertiginous effect.