Landscapes and the Elementals   

Multi-day backpacking hikes and paddling adventures guide me from the Mountains to the Sea;  from deep in the backcountry wilderness, sojourning along creeks and rivers tracking their flow, to floating over aquifer fed Florida springs flowing from inland sources to the coastal estuaries of the LowCountry and spaces in between.  These travels within nature are captured through Landscape Photography.  They are studies of environmental systems, mapping observations of changing climates and seasonal nuances; they are the Elementals of Nature.  

I hope to bring the far-off places to people unable to explore these outdoors and inspire those that may have forgotten how therapeutic explorations, ways of walking and occupying landscapes in Nature are. I am peeling back the layers, revealing the edge boundaries between land and water; documenting the Poetics of Space and the Sublime as a means to illuminate their importance to us individually, as a community and as guardians of this one planet we all share.

Sometimes I make things. As a Sculptor and former Director of an Oceanic Conservation group, I create Assemblages from ocean debris and re-purposed found objects. Just trying to leave the place a little better than how I found it and inspire others to get out and do the same. This world needs for you to give a fuck.

Lately, I have returned to dj’ing soundscapes in an attempt to collage a few unrelated genres: banjos, sublime sad songs, jazz, 90s hip hop, Vienna dub, afro broken beat and the blues. Somehow… all of this will make sense one day. For now, we chase light and follow the body and mind in flow, taking and making as we go. Dr. Um / John Drum