"Memories of a Weather Exposed Skeleton", 2026

"Memories of a Weather Exposed Skeleton" interweaves photographs of New York City begun around the start of the pandemic and work created in upstate New York begun before the pandemic, both continuing simultaneously up to the present.

The exploration is of a city as lonely void, and the country as a place of haunted shapes and forms; that eventually merge with each other and produce a state of mind that transcends the idea of regions and embraces a kind of perpetual transition, impermanence and uncertainty. The resilience of various flora and detritus amidst an urban infrastructure and the weather of rural and small-town landscapes provide gestures of a fragile beauty that hover on the edge of futility. These are photographs that follow the contours, specters, illuminations and visual portals of the everyday.

The photographs acknowledge a bedraggled landscape, an architecture of melancholy, and a twilight civilization writ large. Dilapidated structures, natural and manmade formations and worn surfaces alternate with seemingly solid objects and cryptic cityscapes, blurring the line between permanence and the evanescent to form a more elusive state of being. Somber weather, subdued light, and various reflections and shadows reveal intangible qualities from the most static of objects and places. A siren song to all that wears down or will eventually wear down.

I grew up in upstate New York and now live in Brooklyn. For the past five years, I have made hundreds of forays north mostly on long day trips from Brooklyn, in addition to short stays in my former hometown upstate to photograph the landscape and architecture there, while also continuously photographing in New York City. The way I photograph both places and the spaces between them has evolved into a shared investigation of the phenomenon of light, texture and form and loss. Thus, I see the alternating sequence of the photographs of city and country to be a natural dialogue that acknowledges a certain seamlessness of location, as well as the enigmatic and poignant nature in all things.

A journey that became a loop and blended worlds. Inspired by and compelled by mortality, the dwindling of the real, and the wherewithal of what seen.

*The title of the book is inspired the work of the Japanese poet, Matsuo Basho, specifically his travel sketches entitled: “The Record of a Weather Exposed Skeleton” and his poem:

“A Weathered Skeleton”.

"Memories of a Weather Exposed Skeleton", 2026, Soft Cover, 8 1/2 x10 x1/2 inches, 164 pages, 74 duotones (digital offset printing), 3 original poems, 2 drawings by Margie Neuhaus, including the cover. Open addition