Believe You Me images		In the series Believe You Me, I am building sets and models of landscapes then photographing them with reference to the Romantic Landscape tradition, tourist photography, and conventions of communicating the sublime in the landscape. These grandiose themes are belied and inverted by my use of blatantly artificial materials such as felt, fabric, model trees and plastic figures. I am hoping to communicate both humor and awe, and to force the viewer to question the lines between real and false, actual and artificial. The result is a complicated, idiosyncratic, interior landscape. In Idylls, I further complicate the work by photographing fake birds in real live beautiful environments. Or are they real? Aren't beautiful places always at least partly fake? My scenes are built or arranged, photographed, then adjusted digitally. The final product -- archival pigment inkjet prints on Crane Museo Silver Rag paper.