Spaceman Lost Your Way

Spaceman, Lost Your Way is a photographic narrative conceptualizing an extraterrestrial journey. A ship crash-lands in a remote lake region and the travelers journey through a planet similar to our Earth-- there are familiar trappings-- water, trees, rocks, but mostly we're struck by tragically desolate landscapes and sensational skies of mystical color. Or are the actual spacemen travelers from elsewhere visiting a post-apocalyptic Earth ruined by desertification? That it could be one way or another is intended to disorient and mystify with a sense of wonder. As an astronomer once noted, ruminating on our place in the universe: "Sometimes I think we are alone, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering."

The project stems from our collective concerns regarding climate change and is aesthetically inspired by my longtime love of classic science fiction narrative, most particularly the 1960s anthology show The Twilight Zone, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury, and the Weird Fantasy pulp comics published by EC in the early 1950s.