Ditched
“Ditched” explores the implications of our throwaway society through the examination of debris meticulously collected for one year during the drought of 2014 to 2015 from the shoreline of Eagle Mountain Lake, near Fort Worth, TX. Following in the footsteps of the archeologist, Augustus Rivers, who first insisted that all artifacts, not the just the beautiful or unique be collected and catalogued, I photographed every item found along one mile of newly exposed lakefront. These artifacts speak to me and I seek to understand their journeys and account for each of them.
Barrage of Debris
With the abundant runoff of the Spring 2015 flooding, and subsequent barrage of debris filling my immediate landscape, I began to realize the migratory nature of trash in our waterways flowing from our drainage ditches and roadways. Eagle Mountain Lake, while only 14 square miles in size, is fed by a watershed of over 850 square miles. Unlike the trash entering our oceans, this debris is trapped inland, restrained by lakes and dams.
Individually, the collages reveal the variety, quantity and rate of disintegration of the materials contained in the lakefront. Collectively, they speak to our careless abandonment post gratification. Either by accidental or intentional action, we are being inundated on a massive scale by the individual fingerprints of personal choice.
Prints
Archival Pigment Prints on Canson Infinity Platine Rag, square prints 40″x 40″ or 24″ x 24″, edition of 8 + 2AP. Other sizes available on request
A Bad Wrap (215 wrappers collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2018 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Streams of Consciousness (362 plastic bottles collected from the lakefront )
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2019 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Take Out (580 pieces of Styrofoam collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″ 2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Precipitous (442 glass bottles collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″ 2020 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
E.M.Gyre (136 plastic remnants collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2018 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Touch of Tetanus (193 Rusty nails collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
EBTKS Everything But The Kitchen Sink (343 Home and garden items collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
ButterFingers (513 Tools, rusty metals, or automotive items collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
El Viejo (175 Barbed Wire fragments collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Mesa (117 fencing fragments collected from the lakefron)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Personal Effects Page (363 Personal effects collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″ 2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Sand Candy A,B and Z (382 Glass shards collected from the lakefront)
(3) 40″ x 12″ 2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Knick Knack Paddy Whacker (437 playful bits collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″ 2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
The ONE That Got Away (481 Fishing tackle items collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Eagle Mountain Outfitters, The Lost Soles Catalogue (53 soles collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Beach Bums, Beach Bums, Too (412 Bottles collected from the lakefront)
(2) 96″ x 11″ 2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Drinking buddies, Wasted Buddies (601 Aluminum cans collected from the lakefront)
(2) 40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Snag’D (48 Items that were Snagged by fishing line collected from the lakefront)
40″ x 40″ or 24″ x 24″2017 Edition of 8 + 2 AP