trace

Trace is about what remains after movement.

Water, ice, and sediment are constantly reshaping the land, leaving patterns behind as they move across it. From above, river systems and glacial runoff begin to look almost abstract — lines, branches, and textures that resemble drawings more than landscapes.

Some of these marks last only hours or days before they change again. Others slowly reshape the land over years or centuries.

Seen from the air, these river systems can look almost like veins or vasculature, carrying sediment and water across the surface of a landscape that feels, at times, like an organism.

These photographs capture those traces — the visible record of natural forces at work.