DEPTHS

At night, fragments of the American West emerge under artificial light. In this strange illumination, slopes, fissures, and stone faces hover between substance and apparition. Each surface becomes a site of translation where perception and material blur, and the Earth seems to momentarily unmake itself.

Each formation is illuminated from multiple directions with slow, arcing sweeps of light, captured in long exposure to trace how shadow travels across its contours. When these layers of illumination are combined, the topography is reconstructed in three dimensions, translating ancient geology into a spatial imprint. What begins as observation becomes an experiment in how perception rebuilds the real.

The resulting images rest within the uncanny valley, where natural formations appear as simulacra yet remain entirely real. Depths traces that fragile interval between the measurable and the mysterious, suggesting that our perception of nature now oscillates between recognition and doubt. In this disquieting space, the planet’s surface becomes both evidence and illusion, proof of what exists and of how easily it can appear otherwise.