In the spring of 2007 I accepted a position for the 2007-08 academic
year, as visiting Professor of Art at Hastings College in Hastings,
Nebraska.
The Nebraska project was conceived as a means to document, through
photography, my response to living in a new location. This physically
foreign environment reinforced the dichotomy between human scale and
nature.
Initially my idea was to document a specific location repeatedly.
I thought that returning to the same location each day would grant
me a fuller idea of place. I discovered through driving to the "place”
that I was inspired to further expand the area of my investigation.
This ten month journey resulted in over 1500 photographs of the region
around Hastings, Nebraska.
This body of work is a process of distilling a place, if such a thing
is possible.
Lynn Cox
2008
