Moon the Transformer is a long form, in-progress project photographing the Snoqualmie River in Washington State, flowing from its headwaters in the Cascade mountains westward into the Pacific Ocean. The project utilizes the geographical boundaries of the river as a framework to explore ideas of change, impermanence, and symbolism embedded in the landscape. It is a dialogue with the land, allowing its true nature of relentless transformation in both time and space to be suspended in photographs. The project tries to take an amoral view of human occupation along the river, witnessing the obvious exploitation of resources, but avoiding separating humanity from the natural ecosystem. The title is a reference to the creation mythology of the Snoqualmie people, the indigenous inhabitants of the valley that the river flows through.
Jason Pevey