Place is a geography of rock, river, field and woods.
Place has a history, natural as well as human. Place is a home,
be it homestead, henhouse, town, nest, den or cave. Place pushes
lifegiving energy through one's own body and soul and renews it.
Place enshrines past desires and future hopes for those who dwell
there and for this photographer.
My cameras have been focused on southwestern rural Wisconsin and
rural Illinois for more than thirty years. Views of homebuilding,
marriage and motherhood; the woods, river and prairies outside my
door; events from the Fourth of July annual chicken dinner to the
Cow Chip Throw; the closing and later division of almost 10,000
acres and thousands of structures of the Badger Army Ammunition
Plant; even the ravages wrought by highway projects. All of these
describe this place.
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