Wisconsin's Waters, 2006 Dimensions Variable

I sampled the waters and lands for 30 days and at the beginning I thought it would be great. I thought I would begin to enjoy the waters again. I archived everything: the water, the ground, the time, temp., pH, conditions.

Roland Barthes said: “Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels,or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.” (Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, Hill and Wang: New York, 1980, Pg. 38)

I began to think about these specimins as archives of what was, what is and what will be.

“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.” (Susan Sontag, On Photography, Picador: New York, 1977, Pg. 9)

Alfio Bonanno said, in criticism of younger artists working with the environment the way they:“conceive it is more like a virtual reality. I feel this work has a nostalgic touch - almost the feelingof something lost - that is cold and clinical, reflects a distance from thenature they represent.”(John K. Grande, Art Nature Dialogue, State University of New York Press, 2004, Pg. 56)

I felt like something had been lost and found myself turning nostalgic. I asked: What about now? How do we see our world?

“The desire to see the city preceded the means of satisfying it.”(Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press: 1988, Pg. 92)“The memorable is that which can be dreamed about a place." (109)

Susan Sontag continued:“Photographs, which package the world, seem to invite packaging.”(Susan Sontag, On Photography, Picador: New York, 1977, Pg. 4)