The artist took a series of photos out of the passenger car window while on a 6,000 mile road trip during the spring of 2010 from Missouri to California and back using a point and shoot camera. She used this type of camera deliberately to capture images in a very spontaneous way. At that speed, much was missed, but other times she was able to anticipate and shoot before she really saw and was surprised by the captured image.
She was mesmerized by the changing landscape and, since this was April, we also encountered vast seasonal changes, from the dark gray sky and flat leafless planes of Nebraska, to snow closing the freeway in Wyoming. Once over the Donner Pass, the brilliant green of early spring in Northern California was almost blinding.
When I returned from the trip, I took the base images and manipulated them to heighten the motion and the emotional attachment I have to this vast land.
