The War on Trees

There have been lots of sort of weird working titles for the suburban trees body of work I started last summer. The general idea was that I noticed I kept making pictures at the edges of suburbs, by parks or fields, where trees and vines would be creeping up over telephone poles. At the same time, in the suburbs around New York, where population is slightly denser than the midwestern suburbs I'm more used to, I noticed the phenomenon of holes cut through trees where telephone and power lines cut through them. If you think about it on a certain timescale, these two elements play out into a sort of desperate war between the trees and their zombie cousins, the telephone poles.