“In our banal little world, where far too much living consists of staring at a computer screen, making low-grade decisions, art is pretty much the last bastion of insoluble mystery and radical transport. What’s art for? What it’s always been for. To get you out of here.”

— “What Is Art For,” by Waldemar Januszczak, London Times, October 29, 2006

These images map places where a change of state, a transition, has occurred. The events behind these transitions range from the historically significant to the deeply personal. As the photographs focus on very localized sections of the earth, they delineate both a physical and a cultural geography; Site Line traces the tangible locations of intangible moments that define the history of the land and its inhabitants.

Sometimes evidence of events remains on the ground after the fact, but more often, the transitions that lie beneath the surface of these images leave behind no impression visible to the camera. A seemingly uncomplicated image of the ground is often, through the written word, invested with an unexpected consequence. The photographs confound the knowledge that something important happened here.