In the sandbox in my back yard, like most American children, I too thought that if I dug a hole deep enough, I just might end up in the Orient. The fantasies of what I might find were filled with bustling rickshaws toting red-umbrella-ed geishas, orient-silk’d emperors sitting in gold-flaked thrones in Shaolin temples, Chinese-starred ninjas battling Kung Fu samurai while their fu-man-chu mustached masters watched atop spiring greed-jaded mountain tops. When I got older I discovered my fantasies were ever so slightly askew and that getting to the orient did indeed require digging a deep hole, however a financial…

Skylines is a photographic work in progress focussing on the communities in which we reside and the lines, sometimes invisible sometimes not, that connect us. This project began in 2007 documenting how we build, maintain, layout and see ourselves within the macro and micro of the largescale communities in which we move to and fro, work and live, love and kill. Suggesting not only what we see before us but also the larger nature of the cities and societies we make as well as the reverberations which spread outward from the center. I remain fascinated by exploring new places with…