I found my passion for the built environment through photography. I use photography to ask questions about the values that shape the built environment. 

In a world of “McDonald’s hamburger buildings”, the answers to these questions are occasionally underwhelming. But, these corporate buildings, and the landscapes they are part of, emphasize the importance of what happens after a building is built. 

Ultimately, few new buildings are designed well enough to enhance the human experience, rather than just meet a need. It is up to people to facilitate that meaningful experience in a mundane setting.

Place is a center of meaning constructed by experience. Place is known not only through the eyes and mind but also through the more passive and direct modes of experience, which resist objectification. To know a place fully means both to understand it in an abstract way and to know it as one person knows another. At a high theoretical level, places are points in a spatial system. At the opposite extreme, they are strong visceral feelings.
Yi Fu Tuan

Places are those mundane settings given meaning. My interest in place has led me to a desire to understand space. Space is emotionally immaterial. To use Yi-Fu Tuan’s words again, Space is freedom.

“McDonald’s Hamburger buildings” is a quote from Michi Slick