Working Land

Working Land refers to two facets of rural landscape: the idea of working the land as a vocation and as a description of productive ground. My family tree includes immigrant ancestors who made a living from working the soil and some of their descendants who carry on this work to the present day. That personal connection to working land inspired the project.

tools in barn

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Michels farm, June 29, 2014: I always find tools attractive as subject matter. These everyday implements in the dairy barn probably would have looked and functioned about the same way a hundred years ago; farming changes, but cows are still cows, and need cleaning up after.