Introduction:
For years I have been taking photographs, only to find that others had seen the same shot and had captured it better than I had. Every Missouri Conservationist cover is a natural moment everyone, including myself, has tried to capture.

About ten years ago I began to look for unusual abstractions in everyday things people use in their work and architectural features like the reflections in windows, brickwork, and graffiti. In 2004, while driving the back roads on a fishing trip in the Ozarks, I came upon one of the local canoe rental's "graveyard". There they had stacked all the canoes that could no longer float. I stopped to take a closer look at this field of multicolored canoes. Up close the canoes were scarred by many attempts to patch them up and keep them afloat. I took a long break at the "graveyard" photographing the abstractions I found in textures and colors of the canoes and their patches. The results I call canoescapes, landscapes caused by the random placement of patchwork and color on the canoes. When I'm down in the Ozarks I always stop by the "graveyard" because it is an always evolving abstraction and roadside attraction.

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