Walden Streamed
Walden Streamed is a series of photo assemblages captured over a 10-year period, most of the photographs were taken near Walden Pond in Concord, MA. While inspired by Henry David Thoreau, the images are also an attempt to represent nature as it exists today—impacted by human activity in the Anthropocene era—and examine how our modern relationship with the environment is increasingly mediated by technology.
The series consists of single images and multi-panel arrays built from composite layers, a technique that flattens spatial depth while increasing visual complexity. The compositions feature everyday flora, including dense canopies in ‘Trees’, forest floor in the ‘Clover’, and wetlands in ‘Water Clouds’.
The area known as “Musketaquid” in Concord, named by Indigenous people meaning place ‘where the waters flow through the grasses’ was the initial location for the images. I was intrigued by the swamp ecosystem—specifically its biodiversity and seasonal transformation from a wetland into a dry field. Ultimately, the images are meant to evoke a sense of change and depth, reflecting the power of nature to transform our daily experience in ways we may not fully comprehend, but can readily feel.