brownness
Made where I grew up in California’s Central Valley, looking for weeds with an agricultural survey camera—designed to see particular bands of light in response to a plant’s photosynthetic reaction to various wavelengths. For this work I’ve focused on the ‘master-plan’ communities of land developer Castle & Cooke. In part because of my parent’s purchase and foreclosure of a home in one of these neighborhoods, in the waning years of the American middle-class. But also because Castle & Cooke are the last known holders of a complete set of landscapes made in the area by Carleton Watkins in the 1890’s, a precursor to both the photographic landscape genre as well as the suburban development project in the American West that would inform neoliberal global impact.
