This ongoing photo study examines the relationship between people and Land specifically in the communities of Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. These rock walls are inescapable here, and are especially prominent in the newly developed suburban neighborhoods. The rocks, extracted from quarries in the Organ and Franklin Mountains are arranged in a maze across the cities. Weaving superficial boundaries across the Land.

The self portraits, are taken as part of a daily walking practice. Photographed on a smart phone to maintain the ordinariness of the scene, and to assert the everyday experience of people in these places into the fine art canon. The photographs serve as abstractions of both the Land, through its transformation into the walls and the figure through its representation only as a shadow. The subject matter is further abstracted through the act of photography and then reworked into a wall of its own, putting on display the multitudes of people living in relation to the Land in both its natural and its altered state. Highlighting the authentic relationship within the artificial environment.