Where the Mountains Kept Their Distance

The artist looks across the layered ridges of the Appalachian Mountains, altering the familiar terrain through the shifting, unforgiving color palette of Lomo Purple film. By rendering the foreground canopy in vivid magentas against deep green distant peaks, the image pushes a recognizable location into something unreachable. Grounded in the artist's deliberate, physical foundation in analog photography, this bold chromatic change directly reflects the distance memory creates between a person and a place. Treating the landscape as a fluid ecology, the work explores feelings of displacement and the tension of remembering an enduring form.