TRACYFISH

From 2012-2017, I traveled the road for various lengths of time across the United States, using the camera as a way to mediate the definition of place in relation to the self. The selected images from When the Road Seeks was created during a time of uncertainty and longing for exploration. 

We all might—during a moment in one’s life, come to a period when we are searching and seeking out a form of clarity. The resulting photographs are a representation of this ever-evolving journey for the photographer in both the literal and psychological sense through the mode of observation. The road has acted as a surrogate home during this period of investigation shaped by both shared encounters and temporal engagements with the land. This work is meant to invite the viewer along this journey formed through experience, people, and the land.

“Home… Is where one starts from… We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

— from Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot