Work — Thomas Ladd

THOMAS LADD

^{In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see… —Wallace Stevens}

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THOMAS LADD

^{In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see… — Wallace Stevens}

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AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

Located at high elevations in the Northern Andes, the paramo is an austere glacier-formed grassland of breathtaking beauty. It has long been the home of unnoticed indigenous communities who have grazed livestock and cultivated tubers.

1. Chimborazo
2. Cotopaxi
3. El Angel
4. Lake Puja Puja
5. Imbabura
6. Ozogoche Alto
7. Ozogoche
8. Caja
9. Ozogoche

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NOT FAR FROM HERE

Sometimes I walk with my camera and take pictures with nothing in mind.

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ENDLESS MARGINS IN
THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

The photographs that form this body of work record countless pedestrian facades that build the margins of no place in particular.

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One Hundred Acres Road

Work in Progress

Connecticut shade tobacco is a tobacco grown under shade in the Connecticut River valley of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and southern Vermont. It is used primarily for binder and wrapper for premium cigars.— Wikipedia

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PLAIN SENSE

The poem ‘The Plain Sense of Things’ by Wallace Stevens inspired me to look closely at the ‘blank cold,’ and contend with ‘the absence of the imagination.’

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