DRIVE: FROM A TRUCK

I printed about 55 of these 16 x 20 inch photographs in the early 1990s after shooting hundreds of negatives while driving my pick-up truck across the back highways of Nebraska. They are old-school silver prints processed in my raw, reckless and distressed style.  

Being a painter as well as a user of photographs, I pinned them to the wall in a giant grid and marked on them with various things, including colored inks, varnishes, oils, polymers, primer and tape.  I put them away years ago and recently "re-discovered" them in a box in my basement. 

They are all unique, one-of-a-kind photo-paintings.

To me they seem more like paintings then photographs now. They have a character about them that can function on more levels than a straight, traditional document of the landscape.

I've lived with these for some time now and still feel like they have never lost their ability to hint at what is under and within the landscape; things like sweat, work, blood, chemicals, time, humanity, and the history that binds us to the earth.