GEOMETRY OF THE PRAIRIE

Rising from the landscape, farm and industrial buildings offer a striking contrast to the horizon of the American prairie. Grain elevators, factories, garages and other buildings suggest to me Mondrian’s geometrical abstraction. Shapes ascend up from the landscape, distinct from the surrounding organic appearance of the natural world. My experience as a graphic designer has helped me to see these found compositional studies of these structures: angle and form, pattern and line, rhythm and repetition, with tonal value moving shadow back or light forward. These photographs focus on the reduction to the essential forms of the structures depicted. I seek to organize and simplify the elements of these structures, looking for balance through asymmetry.

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