Crooked Meadow: The Czech Republic

Lightjet C-Prints
22" x 22"
2006-2008

CROOKED MEADOW:

Crooked Meadow is a series of photographs from a small town in the Czech Republic built around a legendary castle at the crook of the Vltava River.

Fascinated by the popular tendency to name, claim and monumentalize specific landscapes while casting aside nearby landscapes as insignificant , Crooked Meadow investigates overlooked terrains, mapping the residual, mysterious and vestigial that remain. The landscapes I am drawn to have little to do with pristine nature or the environmentalists concerns.

Extinct architecture might come about as a result of happenstance or negligence—yet they offer potent spaces through which to decipher communal histories. My continued interest in storytelling from within particular places rather than directly about them, unfurls not through observing what is most prominent in places, but by way of hearsay, warning and whisper as I move within them.