In 2008 I did a three day backpacking trip into, around, and then up and out of the Grand Canyon. This was a phenomenal experience in which I brought back with me hundreds of digital images. I knew while I was there I would do a series using these images and one of the precepts would be shadow. When I got back to my studio I started to play with the images. Then I began to search for something to print them on. I wanted the print material to be specifically connected to the trip.

Finally I contacted the ranger station to see if they had used permits they could send me. I was emailed back by a very nice Ranger, Diane Wells. She explained to me that even if they had used permits they could not send these to me, something about privacy issues, but if I was interested “The Guide, South Rim: May 25-Sept 1 2008” was just about to be replaced with a new guide. This was the guide from when I was there. She emailed that she would find out for me if I could have the old guides. We emailed back and forth and then one day a box came from the Grand Canyon. I did not even count how many I received; all I knew was there were plenty.

The result will be an installation. The proposed installation has changed. There will still be prints, printed on the newsprint guide from the season I was there, but it has gone from an act of destroying the prints to gifting them to those that would like them. It has gone from standing there to walking through. I hope I will have the opportunity to do this installation.