The thing that struck me most about the Mount St. Helens project was not the devastation of the eruption, but the logging industry – the earth transformed on that scale by humans.

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I’m shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.

I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.