Size: 5 Images 24"L x 20"H - Edition of 10

Materials: Lambda Prints

Status: Completed September 2001

EXHIBITION: New Wight Biennial - UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

I embarked on this series, Sister Trains, with the intention of forming a new horizon line, one that was formed out of my own perceptions but of a real place. When the horizon reemerges after being obscured by fog, it seems new again. In this series, the fog is the blur of time. As our culture becomes more and more multi-centered, our perceptions of landscapes shift as well. Sense of place is not derived from putting down roots, but through exercising our own mobility. Mobility implies a perpetual condition of impermanence. Sister Trains is about the fragmented kinship and blurred sense of place that permeates our culture. It is through momentum that trains and places come to resemble each other, barreling onward in opposite directions. Each image in this series documents the space and time in which two trains pass.