Treasure Island
The photographs capture the ethereal, timeless nature of Treasure Island in San Francisco. They are calm in the face of a disturbed landscape and a violent past. The use of wide-angle shots and post-production processing accentuate the empty, disorienting landscape. They are meant to cause a gnawing uneasiness as the viewer imagines the immense scale of operations that took place here as well as the acrid odors and piercing sounds that saturated this site. The viewer is left to create their own narratives of the site. These calm, sad, subdued scenes also offer a sense of the possible and of expectation. The viewer, a stranger in this land, can experience the magic of the obsolete.