Image made while kayaking the Willamette River in rural Oregon. The deadfall tree was washed onto a temporary alluvial island in the river and then embellished with the addition of a copyright sign. A wildfire fighting helicopter trained overhead, there were no other sounds on the island.

The photograph records the effects of environmental rhythms in area that is resistant to human development. The tree has been washed into this location by a violent pulse of water (injury) and then defiled by human hands with the addition of the the copyright graffiti (insult). This image furthers my documentation of the impacts of late stage consumer capitalism on marginal spaces.

Image produced with Kodak Portra 400 film from 2000, when this tree would have been safely growing along the banks of the Willamette far upstream.