Surface

(v) To emerge from concealment.

I used my photographs form my residency in Crater Lake National Park in April 2011. The snow was still packed. I was the only resident, except for a handful of park rangers assigned to live there during the winter months. I would snowshoe the rim of the crater. At times the height of the snow had me passing the tips of the trees on my daily adventures to document my time there.

The crater protects on of the cleanest, largest bodies of fresh water in the world. It is fed only be rain and snow. The depth of the lake is 1943ft deep, so deep that the last time it froze over was in 1949. The caldera walls can rise as much as 2000 feet above the lakes surface. These edges are what I traversed while observing one of the most amazing natural wonders of the world.

Crater Lake has been scientifically studied for the past 102 year. I took my time there to study the dynamic beauty in an around the park. These paintings are the first of several to surface of what will likely be a lifetime of work. I grew up in Klamath Falls, Oregon and the Klamath Tribe is my family and I am theirs. I consider Crater Lake my back yard. It is a part of my homeland.