Erasure Night
These images explore the same erasure as Erasure Day, but in darkness rather than daylight. Engineered objects are losing their purpose. Structures are collapsing into the forest. Made with long exposure and light painting, they find what darkness simultaneously conceals and reveals. What disappears into fog and snow by day disappears into absolute darkness by night. The painted light is the only thing that keeps these subjects from being erased entirely. What remains is stranger for it.
Ward Erasure Night Series
Void A culvert is consuming a stream in a northern Wisconsin forest. The arch reflects in the water below. What enters does not return.
Reclaimed A collapsed rural structure and a birch tree. One built to last. One arrived uninvited. Neither is finished.
Threshold A doorway still standing as the structure around it collapses. It opens onto darkness. The threshold remains. Everything else is failing.
Bones A two-story lumber shed reduced to its frame. The walls have failed. The roof geometry holds on.
Hollowed A dead tree stands in the northern Wisconsin forest, its trunk marked by a column of cavities boring through the wood, yet the tree remains.
Comfort An abandoned chair in a northern Wisconsin forest. The seat filled with leaves and branches. The forest is not waiting.
Waiting A spring rider found at a playground.
Left A child's soccer shoe found at a playground.
Entry An abandoned sawmill shed, northern Wisconsin. The doors are still open. Nothing left to enter. A shovel leans against the right door. The last human trace.