These works celebrate landscape's various connections. Connection with the weather elements that light, sculpt and shape it ; our physical human connection expressed through footprints, movement and shadows; and landscapes connection to our consciousness expressed through our own individual interpretation of genius loci or spirit of place. Through these connections we gain an understanding of our placement as merely elements within the landscape no more significant than a dune, a tree stump or blade of grass - we are exposed to the same processes of change, erosion, growth and renewal. To walk a zig-zag line through the sand dunes - sometimes I find myself running, sometimes I pause and stop only to take off again at double speed. There is no direction to think about - it's just a progression forward...to something...to nothing. I am like a ball of spinifex grass blowing in the wind. Through this directionless nothingness the windblown leaves in my mind begin to settle. A connection emerges, a diagram is found...an answer to a known or undiscovered question...a photographic image results. Nature provides direction, it provides truth, comfort, contrast, clarity and vision. It is friend, soul mate, motivator and teacher. To walk in nature and think of nothing - to walk and look at nothing and see nothing. I am blank and ready to draw and to be drawn upon. When every part of your soul is looking for answers, nature provides the diagram. We manifest the answer - we move to it like a person moves to warmth when they are cold - we are drawn to it. It reaches out - its all just energy - an exchange. It feels more like a celebration with ones self - a dance between ones thoughts, ones eyes and the light left in the day. A memory trace, a shadow, a footprint in the sand - these elements remind us that we are all just transient vagabonds in this constantly changing and sometimes spectacular landscape.