Jennifer Colten

The places I wander rest at the margins of the urban environment. These sites reveal the earth marked by human presence. The photographs, titled as Encounters: present a depopulated world, a world presented as if without witness, while simultaneously offering the implication that some event has occurred. Here, nature sustains, not as mankind would have it, but nonetheless reasserting itself around the scars, and finding new expression. The view offers an uncanny index of humankind’s discarded fragments. The stuff of the world- the debris, the overgrowth, the forgotten objects, offer the suggestion that some event may have occurred; yet this becomes hardly reliable data. Instead the perspective is one of eerie detachment- like evidence of a crime scene.