Twitter is a curious beast. Despite often overflowing with vitriol, every once in a while it facilitates real human connection. Having just finished reading Daegan Miller's This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, I took to Twitter to express my appreciation of his writing. In the months that followed, Daegan came to appreciate my work in photography and alternative process printing (he continues to generously share many of the images I post to Twitter).

Sometime in early 2019 (I think? Time is fuzzy.) Daegan shared with me an idea he had for an essay - one that he has been wanting to write for years - inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's 19th century photographs of the 1000 Mile Tree along the transcontinental railroad in northern Utah. When he asked if I would consider a collaboration I was floored, and of course I said yes. Over the next several months Daegan formulated a pitch outlining the idea for his essay in conversation with my photographs, which he submitted to Emergence Magazine. Emergence embraced the pitch, and Daegan and I immediately began making plans to visit Utah.

As with many things during the pandemic, plans got delayed, but we finally were able to travel in November of 2021. Daegan spent the next several months compiling his notes and thoughts while I processed and culled the images I made, each of us using the other's work to inform and evolve our own. Those efforts culminated with the online publication of Of Wandering Angels and Lost Landmarks in Emergence Magazine on August 25, 2022. The Emergence publication contains three of my images, and below you will find a broader selection of images I made during that project.

I am grateful to Daegan for his championing of my artwork and for his generosity in treating me as an equal partner in this project, even though it was his vision that made it possible. I am also grateful to the folks at Emergence Magazine for sharing my work.