A study of the quiet, desolate landscapes of the Sonoran Desert, where the edges of civilization feel both distant and imagined. Skeletal trees, monumental rock formations, abandoned structures, and vast, open valleys depict a terrain that resists easy narrative.

These photographs evoke a lingering mythology of the American West—one shaped by expansion, isolation, and endurance—while also revealing its fragility and emptiness.

In this place, grandeur and decay coexist, and the land itself seems to hold the remnants of both promise and abandonment.

(Medium format film, 2022)