The American desert has always fascinated me. Where others see emptiness, I see a landscape alive with form, abstraction, and human imprint. In Indifferent West, I explore the shifting visual and cultural meanings embedded in the contemporary Western landscape. Wind, water, and geology sculpt the desert into graphic lines and shapes, while receding water and encroaching development expose the tensions between precious natural resources and the expanding myth of the American frontier.

My photographs engage the Anthropocene American Western landscape as both an outsider and a witness, drawing attention to the ways cultural, political, and environmental forces reshape its identity. The project critiques the canon of Western landscape photography by reexamining how images of the West have long shaped national mythology and collective memory. Rather than romanticizing wilderness, I observe where desert and water intersect with infrastructure, tourism, and industrial presence—revealing a space suspended between its idealized past and its altered present.

Emptiness in these photographs is not void but presence: a space that holds memory, metaphor, and the trace of human intervention. Through horizon, depth, and the subtle calligraphic gestures of terrain, I seek to create images that acknowledge both absence and evidence. Indifferent West ultimately considers the fragility of this iconic region and questions our role in defining, consuming, and transforming the landscapes that shape American identity.