The Lost Landscapes
2025
Twenty years ago I created a series called The Lost Landscapes in which I pieced together fragments of my landscape photographs from different places around the world to create completely fictional lands that exist only in the memory of my imagination.
Now twenty years later, I am working on a reprise of that old series using my original photographs shot long ago layered with new work and paper collage ephemera to represent the fragility of life and the passage of time with each torn and wrinkled page.
It is a collaboration with all the girls and women I used to be - more hopeful and more naive. I truly believed in the goodness of people then and that anything was possible in a benevolent world. Twenty years ago I was a successful artist, my son was a toddler and I was newly pregnant with twins. I went out shooting every day and saw joy and magic in everything. Little did I know that later that year I would lose one of my twin daughters, leaving me with such a deep psychic wound that I would not recover my creativity for over a decade and a half.
The landscapes I once inhabited, both real and imagined, froze over and became uninhabitable. The door to the many realms of my creative expression were boarded up. Joy became a distant foreign land.
In this new work, I go looking to find the scattered shards of myself still lost in these other dimensions, hoping to repair and integrate the past with the present. I'll never recover a certain innocence, but I do think there's still a chance at finding someone worth the search and rescue mission. There are no maps to these lost lands, but I make the journey so that I can be whole again to face the next chapter of my life at this critical time in history.
This is now part four of my long-term "Lost" body of work. In 2023 I created The Lost Years about my adolescent daughter losing her way during the pandemic. This was followed by Lost in Space in 2024 which further explored post-pandemic isolation. Also in 2024 I created my series "Lost and Found" about the death of my twin daughter and the resuscitation of my lost creativity, which went on to be a Photolucida Critical Mass finalist.
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