Storied American-Canadian photographer Mark Ruwedel aims "to disturb all the assumptions we have about what's in a landscape picture, and to trace the different ways people have thought about place." The photographs here are drawn from three discrete series: "Desert Houses, Dusk", and "Crossings", each focusing on aspects of humanitys fallible adaptation to the Southern California desert, a place where, Ruwedel remarks "nobody ever cleans up." The "Dusk" prints capture the moment that day gives way to night, offering respite from heat and sun and cover for trails of existence captured in Desert Houses and Crossings that recount sagas of migration and abandoned plans through objects lying in the sand.
