There is an inextricable link between the perspective of human engagement and the reaction of unseen forces.  Secondary Refuse involves the creation of photographic devices sensitive to gamma radiation.  These machines were bolted to the ground revealing images through 8-12 hours of exposure at the site of the first man-made nuclear reaction in 1942. 

This growing body of work addresses the residual radiation of an event nearly 70 years passed, and quietly exposes one of the greatest changes in humanities dynamic since the advent of agriculture.  These images reveal the sensitive byproducts of progress with which we are in contact daily, and confront what we discard as irrelevant and what is unseen as far-reaching. 

Secondary Refuse is a collaboration with Everett Lawson.