Once many years ago, I had driven through Utah on a long road-trip home and can remember being breath taken at the time. However, it was not until my recent photographic trip to Moab that I could really dive into the landscape and create an artistic vision that I present to you in this body of work. One cannot help but to think about how similar this landscape must be to that of another planet, specifically the fourth one from the Sun in our own solar system. “4th Rok” arose out of this vision of how it would be to walk along the Martian landscape. Not the Martian landscape as it exists today, but how it might exist thousands of years in the future after man has been terraforming the planet for centuries. An atmosphere with skies and clouds will have formed, plant life has begun to grab hold, and the environment will slowly become more forgiving to the human race.

In my mind, I put myself exactly there during this trip and it was all I would let myself think of, in fact. The light is different, the smells are different, there is no solid sense of direction, and what appears to be close will only fool you once you begin to walk towards it for 5 minutes and realize it looks smaller than it did prior. What I believe would be most fascinating, would be the extraordinary way the light lands on the surface of the planet; it can’t possibly look the same as it does here on Earth. So, from the small details to the vast landscape, I invite you to take a stroll with me into another world. I invite you to visit… the “4th Rok”!