John Kane
Washington has been my home state for 34 years. I have driven around a bit and taken many pictures. I call this body of work Lost in WA. I think it consists of about 400 pictures now, and here are 10 from the last few years.
I look for pictures that tell stories about place, about how we inhabit the land, how our values and culture show up in the geography and in our surroundings. Space becomes place because we inhabit it, we impose upon it. I pay attention to the formal and graphic appearance of the built and the natural, and I try to capture the sometimes comfortable, occasionally ironic, frequently jarring way that physical geography and human-imposed stuff and structure accommodate and jostle with each other.
These are a few places I have seen in Washington.
Glacial Erratic at 16th NW-16th NE, WA
2021
15” x 15”
Archival inkjet print
Very Dead End, Beverly, Washington
2022
15” x 15”
Archival inkjet print
South Bend
2020
14” x 14”
Archival inkjet print