NEEDS CHANGE - Most of any road trip consists of watching the scenery pass by. It is like a long film taken from a single vantage point with a consistent horizon line. Unlike our previous car trips the van offered a higher vantage point and large windows with a more expansive view.

With endless scenery and countless hours on the road, I again began photographing from my post in the passenger seat. The term “needs change” began to develop as the shell of an idea  about changing climate and our complicated relationship with oil, as I chronicled our journey, noticing places and things that either need changing or exemplify how our needs have changed.

We all take photos to document our travels in an effort to capture a piece of what it felt like to be in that spot, at that time. We post and store our photos then never look at them again.When I returned home from each of these extended journeys I wanted to re-experience the trips. I did this by exploring the photographs in different ways keeping in mind the words “needs change”. I started by culling them into a manageable amount of images, then editing them for content and aesthetics, moving next to printing them out and enhancing them with paint and pen. The final edit consists of 100 images presented in a 4x6” format on water colour paper. These are the result of the first exercise of re-examining what was seen from the passenger seat over the three years.