So much to say…and create to stop destruction of our Long Island landscape! The encroaching fuel tanks in Riverhead caused me concern 10 years ago when I was photographing the agricultural landscapes of the East End of Long Island. The tanks looked like a dystopian army invasion and crows were swarming above it all. Back then I thought of Van Gogh’s painting, Crows Over the Wheatfield, that screamed of his emotional turmoil. Every time I returned to my photograph I couldn’t make its visual cry purposeful enough until creating Crows Over Farm Field in 2017 when I superimposed Van Gogh’s tormented sky into my work.
