The Pacific Northwest is experiencing a vast renaissance of change, effected dually by both natural shifts and urban gentrification. I am surrounded by this incredible dichotomy, watching a former industrial capital become a metropolitan center: multicultural neighborhoods awkwardly emerging. I've seen the great lakes, valleys, desert and mountains and balance them in my daily walks through parks, alleys, vacant lots, train and shipyards. In the process I have documented the aging, of architecture as well as a variety of industrial and other natural settings by weather and the human hand. I look at my surroundings as a deconstructed topographical map. My practice of looking is patterned in real time with the camera and then digitally recomposed like a musical score. And often I will pair myself in collaboration with some of the world's finest composers of field recordings and electro-acoustic compositions.Where nature emerges as geometric and mechanical I often discover unique relationships, between the organic and the fabricated - virtually mapping the intersection between the experiential and the concrete. Taking pictures or making video is an act of collecting source material for evolving multimedia projects. Like an archeologist would, I observe nature