40 years of layered maps of St. Louis, from the late 1800s to the 1930s. If you zoom in, you can see how the streets seem to tumble over each other as each map tries to make up for the previous' discrepancies. For the first phase of my studio this semester, I'm mapping the engineering work the city funded over 100 years to change the River des Peres from a clean river into a veritable sewer that flows straight into the Mississippi.

The photos are samples of the industrial area that borders part of the river.

More to come!

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A storm rolled in from across the plains and emptied itself in the Mississippi..

Night lightning. Continuous shutter @ 1-second intervals over 2+ minutes.

There are dark calms and frying jolts like an argument between clouds.

The light is silent but the darkness growls.

(And in all things, patterns, how recharging cloud energy is bundled in the dark lapses,

how the seconds between light and thunder measure the distance between you and all that violence.)

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