The Urban Myths series (2008-2012) looks at the American landscape. It juxtaposes images from those American cities that have seemingly grown overnight out of nowhere (so pristine they seem fake), with images of the unlikely and often inhospitable environments that surround them. From a distance, the cities appear like dislocated islands of light to which planes and cars are attracted like moths. The areas around the edge of the city are often derelict, forgotten spaces: a nation’s abandoned lots. The use of long exposures and artificial lightning gives a sense of

condensation of time, a sense of anonymity and strangeness that transform the locations from their everyday appearance into something theatrical and strangely void of human presence.. The series looks at the significance of the notion of untouched wildness, the great virgin land that lies open to opportunity and thus becomes the point of focus for dreams of freedom that are so important to American culture, and its disappearance as those landscapes are being swallowed up by urban sprawl, light pollution and population growth.