Artist Statement

OUTPOSTS began with my fascination for structures that appear to possess personalities of their own.

I photograph barns, towers, bunkers, stables, houses, industrial buildings, roadside landmarks, and other forms that interrupt the landscape and hold my attention.

I then remove the structures from their original surroundings and place them within a recurring landscape of dry grass and unsettled gray sky. Roads, trees, neighboring buildings, people, and other familiar points of reference
disappear. What remains is a direct encounter between the viewer and the structure.

In this invented environment, function becomes uncertain. A barn can resemble a monument, a bunker can become a fortress, and a small building can feel like the last inhabited place on earth. Animals and isolated objects occasionally enter the landscape, suggesting fragments of stories that are never fully explained.

The thirty-two photographs in OUTPOSTS are portraits of buildings and landmarks separated from geography and ordinary time. Together, they form a quiet, strange settlement—an imagined territory occupied by structures
waiting to be discovered.

— Michael Domino
Port Jefferson, New York