Motion In Limine: Was

This photograph is part of In Limine, the second series in my larger Moving Landscapes body of work.
This series is a physical exploration of the tones, colors and hues of the coastal shoreline of the Eastern US (featuring locations in Maine, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. It is also a further exploration of using the camera to document a place differently, less representationally, than I do in my actual documentary work. The technique removes the specific location identifiers, and allows the viewer to absorb or feel as much as see the presented landscape.
The term In Limine means 'on the threshold' and these images are just that. They are on threshold of time (day or night) and place (the edge of the continent/country/land/sea). They are also on threshold of what we think we know as a photograph. As such these images are a literal interpretation of the latin phrase Motion in Limine.

Additionally, I am interested in decommodifying the digital image and returning a sense of materiality to the world of digital photography. I want the end work to be unique even if the image can be technically perfectly reproduced. To that end, I have reimagined the mounting and framing of these photography, borrowing ideas usually employed by painters. In the past I have worked with paper and metal so this time chose wood. I designed and individually fabricated the panels and frames and mounted images I printed, thus ensuring and embracing the hand hewn, one of a kind quality of each piece.