Scott
Hinton

Negotiation

The idea of simulacra is a persistent theme in the study of the human construct. And therefore, prevalent in my study of human wildland interface. At what point is a landscape natural or human. Looking back across the history of exploration photography there was little that had been studied whereas these sites today must balance nature, capital and social will.

"desert persona" examines Dinosaur, Colorado and its tenacity as an evolving pit stop along a well-traveled corridor. Formerly, Artesia, Colorado, now known as Dinosaur evolved with the tourism industry given its proximity to the national monument. The selected images represent a gridded city ideal peppered with inhabitant individuality that implores eccentricity. Formal aesthetics document "whoever messed up this fence you have no conscience!" illustrates the locale's self-expressive residents.