While mostly taking photographs along the California coast, I recently had the opportunity to visit Capitol Reef National Park and its surroundings in Utah. It is a fascinating landscape with stark contrasts from rough rock formations to soft bentonite hills. “Skin of the Earth” is a small series of photographs mostly of the bentonite hills. Since those hills are outside the national park boundaries their preservation is not a given and I very much hope they will be preserved for future generation to experience this unique landscape.

A highlight of my trip was the discovery of the image titled “Canones Diversi – Ascendenteque Modulatione” reflecting on J.S. Bach’s canon in “The Musical Offering”. This canon ends a tone higher than it starts, so it keeps raising in a spiral movement with every round, like the rocks in the image seem to climb with every layer.