From examination of minute detail, colors, patterns and textures found in piles of fish nets to documentation of the whole mass, this series honors one of mankind’s oldest and least modernized occupations, that of net fishing. These lines, nets, floats, rings and tarps are some of the gear used by salmon fishermen on purse seiners in northern Puget Sound. Piled neatly on docks or in storage areas, either between jobs, or in some wilting storage limbo of retirement, perhaps awaiting one last ride to a distant landfill, this gear offers endless possibilities for visually arresting and compelling compositions.
