Using a Canon EOS 20, a digital SLR camera, I shot images at Joshua Tree National Park in the spring of 2005 as part of a 24-hour photo shoot project and subsequent exhibition, Site Lines, at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside. The images were shot on the path of the 49 Palms Trail and from the property of the Homestead Inn on Two Mile Road in 29 Palms, where I stayed during the shoot. The images were manipulated (layered, color corrected) using Photoshop CS and printed on Epson Premium Glossy paper using an Epson Stylus Pro 9600.

In using actual images of the landscape at dawn and pre-dawn, I wanted to convey the idea of another culture looking on -- "surveying" as it were-- thus the inclusion of the tripod and plumb bobs in the sky to suggest constellations of ancient cultures, and another albeit "feminine" presence. A four minute video tracking the desert light of dusk, pre-dawn and dawn and the predominating sounds of the wind and the animals accompanied the photo work in the gallery.