Stripped Landscapes emerged out of a photography course I took with Ann Mandelbaum at Pratt Institute. Another profressor had us reading Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space, and the chapter on 'intimate immensity' had a partcular resonance with the conceptual basis of my work.  These photographs are an exploration of the landscapes that surrounded me, the horizons, the cracks and crevices, and the expansive plains that I found when I peered closely into familiar forms.  The work looks into the bareness of things, the vulnerability that emerges when everything is taken away, the fullness of those very quiet places.  These small spaces served as a stark juxtaposition to and welcomed refuge from the grit and grime, the loudness and constant flux of New York City. Stripped Landscapes, black and white photographs on fiber paper, 9"x13", 1999