Of Heaven and Earth by David Shannon-Lier

For the past three years I have been traveling North America making carefully constructed photographs of the sun and moon. he desire to make these photographs stems from several—sometimes complimentary, sometimes contradictory—impulses. It comes from notions of belonging to the land and the land belonging to me, from the allure of the single point perspective of photography, from the importance of a few hours in a very specific place, in contrast with the incomprehensible scale of time and space itself. Finally they stem from a keen sense of my own mortality alongside the desire to be known, to make one’s mark so to speak.

David Shannon-Lier is currently on the road.
To view more of David's work, please visit his website.

*Reflection of The Rising Moon Over The Dalton Highway, Alaska*

*Grassland Moonset, Gila National Forest, New Mexico*

*Reflection #2 (Transit of the Moon), Mesa, Arizona*

*Ironweed Moonset, Flying W Ranch, Kansas*

*Taraxacum Sunrise, Livingston, Montana*

*Reflection #9 (Transit of the Sun), Winter, Wolf Flats, Idaho*

*Juniper Moonrise, Tonto National Forest, Arizona*

*Mesquite Moonset, Mazatzal Wilderness, Arizona*

*Watchtower Moonset, 100 Mile House, British Columbia*

*Firewood Moonset, Tuttle Creek State Park, Kansas*

*Saguaro Moonrise, Lost Dutchman State Park, Arizona*

*Reflection #3 (Setting Moon), Mesa, Arizona*

*Rooftop Moonset, Vancouver, British Columbia*

*Sapling Moonrise, Squirrel Creek, Alaska*

*Reflection of The Rising Moon Over Our Home, Mesa, Arizona*

Of Heaven and Earth by David Shannon-Lier

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