At the terminator, where day gives way to night, uncommon sand dunes of milky white gypsum silently reflect the atmosphere's ephemeral conversion. Between the dunes, the experience of this transition is a mesmerizing one. Slow at first, sections of the sky and ground appear to merge. Fine and subtle pastel colors cover the dune field, seemingly emanating from both above and below. No sound moves through the air. Softness smothers the senses. Eyes search for the horizon as up and down fold into one. If there ever was a place in which ideas transcend their bony cages, it is here, riding the ever transient border between light and its absence.
Reciprocal is a body of work captured over 5 days while hiking into the gypsum sand dunes of the American Southwest at twilight. Each day brought new forms, shapes, and hues. Watching the white sand reflect a rainbow of color with the setting sun, and feeling briefly disoriented due to the progressive loss of contrast, is an otherworldly pleasure and privilege.
The resulting images are a meditative study of softness, subtlety, and delicate balance.
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