“It is the desperate moment that we discover that this empire, which had seemed to us the sum of all wonders, is an endless, formless ruin, that corruption’s gangrene has spread too far to be healed by our scepter, that the triumph over enemy sovereigns has made us the heirs of their long undoing.”
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Distant Relatives explores the visible symptoms of our failed human empire and our cultural attitudes toward nature. The evidence of humanity’s eternal struggle is ubiquitous. In our cities, our suburbs, our industrial areas, and in between every human-made structure, the natural world can be found living in the cracks, surviving, adapting, and thriving despite our efforts. It can be seen just outside our carefully manicured gardens, over the barrier from our highways, and in the way we restrain, block, and remove living things from our cities to make room for steel and concrete monuments to our self-destruction.
All photographs are available as Gelatin Silver prints, or can be purchased in small zine format through Blurb.
