There is a quiet moment before a disaster, before the sandy city collapses and the subdivision goes up in steam. There is water in the tinajas, but it evaporates quickly into the desert air, leaving behind an ever more crowded community of invertebrates. Drowning trees stand surrounded by an endless expanse of water, and sailboats float away from a barren mountain, yet there is a chance to choose a different outcome. These images show moments of our present world – flooding, pollution, drought, climate change – that are exceptional. The landscapes retain a surreal quality, a tranquility of dreams and an unsettled future, but their strange events could become commonplace. In the images, though, time stands still, as if waiting to see what actually happens. This fleeting stillness creates time for a decision. The potential for destruction is seductive, and each terrible scene is already set to unfold in its own colorful world.

Within the images, visual elements repeat to form patterns, dense accumulations that suggest the proliferation of living things throughout the world. There is an intersection of the old and the new, of spontaneous organic growth and measured architectural constructions. This contrast creates a tension, a uniting of disparate elements into an uneasy whole. The prints offer visions of grand transformations and celebrate the odds of defeat. The rocks and buildings and clouds share an obsessive quality, a meditation on their history and composition, and on what they will become. Small circles create an undulating texture, an underlying sense both of the tiny atoms that comprise everything, as well as of the minute particles into which all things crumble.