We humans are very good at disrupting nature in general but in particular through our modes of transportation. Cars, trains, airplanes and ships are constantly on the move. We travel places and goods travel to us and through it all the constant motion of commerce and its deleterious impact barely registers in our collective psyche. Amazon is now a store and not a rainforest.

Through the time-stretching effects of a long exposure, these photographs reflect on the developmentally arrested modes of 21st century transportation and consumption–what we know as the general business of commerce. Both ships and trains slice through the lens and landscape, capturing an unending abstracted streak of image-as-metaphor for the continuous, and circuitous human activity as it disrupts the landscape on a global scale.

An additional emphasis to the aspect of time is made by capturing new images at the precise same location, again and again. As the seasons change and nature takes its course, trains and ships continue to interrupt the landscape, signaling how perpetual commerce really is.

Various formats can be realized: Book format that shows ship photographs accompanied by shipping lane maps over a period of 1 year, large prints (approximately 60” x 40”). The train photographs can be printed as diptychs, contrasting the landscape with one image showing a train passing and one without, (approximately 60” x 30”).