

This exhibit invites viewers to confront the complicated traces we leave behind. The two featured photographers document not just landscapes, but landscapes shaped—altered, consumed, and scarred—by human presence. Their images serve as quiet witnesses to the tension between use and abuse, necessity and excess.
Their cameras are focused on the reality of heaps of discarded materials, fractured terrains, altered ecologies. Yet, in some of these images, there is also a kind of arresting order that belies the devastation beneath. This visual dissonance forces us to pause. We are drawn in by form, texture, and compostition—even as the content challenges us to reckon with uncomfortable truths about consumption, permanence, and the cost of progress.
These works do not demand a single interpretation. Instead, they create space for reflection—on our patterns, our priorities, and our collective impact. In bearing witness, the artists offer us both evidence and elegy: a call to see the landscape not as backdrop, but as participant and casualty in the human story.