Artist's statement:
While creating art photographs in wooded areas, specifically the Minuteman National Park in Lincoln and Concord, MA, I became interested in the idea of repeated human narratives. It struck me that although the place was best known for one series of dramatic moments as the site of the ride of Paul Revere, surely other similarly tumultuous occurrences happened in earlier days in the same spot, whether with earlier settlers or the Native American tribes that lived in the area. In 2006 I expressed this idea not with a historical study, but with a set of new photographs of public parking spaces. These spaces imply the presence of people and vehicles, and the small dramas of finding them are familiar to everyone who drives. However, the often-heated hunt is soon forgotten once a space has been found, and these spaces that we rarely consider otherwise are reused again and again for the same purpose.