An Unending Path 2022-2026
Inkjet prints on 17x22 and 26x36” archival paper, unique cliché-verres on 16x20” vintage gelatin silver paper, photopolymer plate prints on 11x15” Rives BFK, duotone screen prints on 8x10” Strathmore. Only a potion of the series is shown here.

In my childhood home hung a small, yellowed pen-and-ink drawing of a rectangular pond surrounded by shade trees and untamed shrubs. I did not know it had been drawn by a family member or that it would later lead me to rediscover part of my family’s history. Thirty years later, I traveled to France to visit that pond.

Toward the end of 1931, my great-uncle, Frederick Holden Buck, sailed from Massachusetts to rural France to work as a tutor for an American expatriate family living in a fifteenth-century château. Fred spent several years there teaching, writing letters home, and making occasional artworks, including the drawing that hung in my home. The experience proved formative for him and shaped the trajectory of his life.

An Unending Path began with that drawing and the curiosity it sparked. Throughout my broader practice, I consider how built and natural landscapes echo the societies that inhabit them. This project is my first sustained exploration of a place with deep personal significance. The château and its grounds remain notably unchanged, and that continuity allowed me to wander as Fred once did. This work led me toward new approaches to image-making and new ways of understanding both my practice and myself. The project became a collaboration across time, shaped by parallel observations of the same place.