LAND SATORI

Land Satori is a fine art photography project exploring landscapes altered by the Carr, Creek, Park, and Dixie Fires. Rather than documenting destruction, the work focuses on how these environments carry memory and shift over time. Through abstraction, compression, and slow observation, the images reframe the land not as static or ruined, but as something alive, unresolved, quiet, and always in motion.

I work with shallow focus, muted light, and spatial flattening to emphasize subtle surface rhythms, burn lines, erosion patterns, traces of regrowth. Human elements like power poles and roads appear more as remnants than subjects, blending into the land’s texture rather than defining it. Each image is a meditation on presence and change.

The project is influenced by Zen aesthetics and the concept of Satori, a sudden moment of clarity or awareness. There is no fixed narrative here. Land Satori invites stillness and reflection, asking how we perceive transformation, how we carry landscapes within us, and how impermanence shapes both land and self.