Photography
Farmers and ranchers in the West have vast areas within their land holdings to store or discard old and out of date machinery. Although these mechanical graveyards create an unsightly blight on the landscape, they do represent a scattered visual history of farming equipment design that evolved over the past century. A creative artist with a critical eye and a good camera can discover these mechanical cemeteries as material for photographic creations taken totally out of context to the reality of the original mechanism. New translations redefine and refresh the metallic shapes within an abstract format while hinting, through fragments of machinery parts, that evidence of the implement is still present to the observer in the cropped image.
Rusty Letters
1930 Combine reaping Machine
Baker City, Oregon
Peeling Paint
Old Ford Pickup Hood
Embler, Oregon
Oxidized Paint
Cletrac Crawler Tractor
Baker City, Oregon
Old Body Parts
Early 20th Century Combine
Amity, Oregon
Shadows
Rusty Tractor Parts
Baker City, Oregon
Bird Droppings
Metal Wheel of 1910 Tractor
Baker City, Oregon
Gripping Bars
Metal Wheel of 1910 Combine
Baker City, Oregon
Wooden Gear Switch
Old John Deere Manure Spreader
Baker City, Oregon
Stringed Fishing Buoy Floats
Lummi Island, Washington
Compressor Bolt System
Old Lumber Yard
Along the Columbia River Gorge
Lyle, Washington
Rusted Relic
Out To Pasture
Enterprise, Oregon
Rake and Shovel
Lake Cabin Cleanup
Priest Lake, Idaho
Peeling Paint on Wood
Old Lumber Yard
Along The Columbia River Gorge
Lyle, Washington
Railroad Refrigerator Car
Sumpter Museum
Sumpter, Oregon
V/8 Louvered Engine Hood
Mid 20th Century Ford Flatbed Truck
Monmouth, Oregon
Target Practice
Holes In Truck Fender
Baker City, Oregon
Lichen With Knot Hole
Skagit Flats
Edison, Washington
Lichen On Old Barn Wood
Skagit Flats
Edison, Washington
Boiler Plates
1910 Iron Combine Tractor
Monmouth, Oregon
Gear System
Rusty Combine
Monmouth, Oregon
Side Fan Belt Wheel
1949 John Deere B Series Tractor
Enumclaw, Washington
Warped Letters
John Deere Thrasher
Tekoa, Washington
Rust and Bird Droppings
Side Panel Of Old Combine
Baker City, Oregon
Letters And Rust
Massey Ferguson Tractor
Tekoa, Washington
Holy Seat
Antique Horse Drawn Style Tractor Seat
Imbler, Oregon
Iron Wheel
Tractor Tread
Baker City, Oregon
Rusty Engine Latch
Case Tractor
Baker City, Oregon
Rusted Metal
Old Train Engine
Sumpter, Oregon
Plastic Hand
Nailed To Farm Storage Shed
Baker City, Oregon
Letters And Patterns
Cletrac Crawler Tractor
Baker City, Oregon
Wire Shadow With Letters
Tractor Body
Elgin, Oregon
Bullet Mark On Metal
John Deere Tractor Fender
John Day, Oregon
Boiler Plates
1910 Combine Tractor
Baker City, Oregon
Faded Lettering
John Deere Tractor
Enumclaw, Washington
Louvers
Side Engine Truck Panel
Amity, Oregon
Boiler Plate
Pusher Engine At Sumpter Museum
Sumpter, Oregon
Wire Strand
Rusted Watering Trough
Goldendale, Washington
Rusty Snow Shovel Blade #1
Crawler Tractor
Crystal Mountain, Washington
Rusty Snow Shovel Blade #2
Crawler Tractor
Crystal Mountain, Washington
Rusty Hinge
Old Barn Door
Ringling, Montana
Grill
John Deere Tractor
Goldendale, Washington
Pine Bark #1
Columbia River Gorge
Chenoweth, Washington
