Burn Index

This series is the result of a four-year project, which took me to the desert outside of Tucson, Arizona multiple times. The allure of the mighty saguaro cactii brought me back to this location at various times of the year. As the light and temperature changed from season to season, so my camera and lens choices varied as well. This project coincided with my entry into encaustic and a more renegade approach to print manipulation. The heat of the desert seemed an appropriate companion to my hand manipulation of the prints. This series will be the focus of an exhibition at Zendo in Albuquerque, NM in March 2025.
All images are manipulated photographic prints; bleached, burned, torn, painted and covered in encaustic.