To draw a subject accurately, it is better to avoid thinking of the subject being drawn and instead identify and isolate the specific shapes that make up that subject, and then attempt to reproduce those shapes on paper.
Drawing an eye while thinking about drawing an eye, for instance, typically leads to drawing what one thinks an eye should look like, instead of the actual appearance of the specific eye being drawn.
I often apply a similar technique to photography as an alternative way of seeing. I look for interesting visual forms and relationships rather than potential subjects and objects, and then I compose each image with regard to those visual forms. This sometimes leads to unusual and even subject-lacking images when the photographs are viewed as representational images.
Through this method I attempt to avoid representing the landscape in a preconceived way and instead search for new and poetic approaches for photographing the landscape. Despite the often strange appearances, the resulting images are no less authentic or realistic than the preconceived images we think landscapes should look like.
The photographs in this series were made using this technique and have images in which a subject might be more easily perceived.
Stateless is a series made using the same process but features images that lack a clearly identifiable subject.