Unraveling the Story

I’ve spent most of my life documenting the world as I pass through. Seeking beauty in seemingly inconsequential, mundane moments as well as in the sprawling nature of the grand and sublime, because they’re both equally important to the story I want to tell. 

My phone and journals are full of snapshots, sketches and scrawled stories from the road. Sometimes they’re shared as I go and sometimes I simply keep things in my pocket until the right words or moment, never really knowing when that’s gonna be. Just knowing that one day there will be a time and place for it all. 

Today as I watched the deer graze in front of the bare trees across the prairie, with the sun warming my back and the cool breeze tugging at my clothes, I was instantly reminded of another moment - one where I was doing a similar thing and captured this image at a ranch near Water Valley, TX. It’s always been one of my favorite photos, but I never really knew what to do with it. Yet today I was transported back there for a few seconds and knew it was a sign to finally let that little memory and empty chair out into the world. 

Sometimes there’s such a strange, yet beautiful simplicity to seeing how your work mirrors you as you gently guide it along, while simultaneously unraveling a life of its own as the living, breathing process does its thing.