Thirty-six views of a cairn in the Hudson Valley

This is an odyssey partly inspired by Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. These often appeared in series, such as Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji or Hiroshige's "One hundred views of famous places of Edo". In particular I made these works just after I had just seen a set of Hiroshige's prints `Six Views of the Six Jewel Rivers' (Mu tamagawa).

I went out into the countryside north of New York city and took this series of photographs of a single cairn, translated and rebuilt in thirty-six different locations. Each photograph shows the same cairn, but it appears in many different surroundings, and in different configurations to suit the genius loci.

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