Throughout the ages, bodies of water enticed, threatened, seduced, and inspired human beings. Scholars, artists, poets, writers, warriors, and sailors interpret water differently. Many epic tales of adventure were told about fantastic beasts and mythical spirits.

People react to water through the eyes of personal experience. The sound of lapping waves calls the names of some of us and holds our gaze. Others interpret rushing torrents with fear. Repetition of water takes hold and owns you in either circumstance.

How does the movement of a small prairie river compare to the pounding waves of a bottomless sea? How can the story of movement be encapsulated in a photograph? Can sound transmit sight in the imagination?

The images in the riverlakesea series encapsulate the essence of water’s movement or its stillness to evoke emotion or memory and conjure up new abstract fictions on dry land.