Introduction
For End of the Line, I set out to explore the wilds of New York City. I used the linear structure of the subway system as a framework for looking at the transitional spaces surrounding the last stops, both at the outer edges as well as those in the heart of the city. The photographs investigate these in-between spaces, visibly layered with the tension between - and the melding of - nature and culture.
I grew up in idyllic Oregon with an appreciation for nature, not only for its beauty but also for its resilience and its unsympathetic and unapologetic march forward. Like the blackberry bushes that would overtake our house no matter how brutally we cut them back. Surprisingly, New York City nature is similarly exuberant. I experience a certain optimism in seeing a bush pressing through a fence or a stump sprouting green in the spring. I am likewise moved by the human intervention in the landscape, such as a cement wall accented with rocks as if it was found that way, naturally.