A collection about reminiscence and the way one develops a way of place by photographer Colton Rothwell. Born and raised in small cities within the Western United States, Rothwell examines his personal reminiscences and queer identification and their relationship to the cultural and bodily landscapes of his youth:
“I used to be raised for probably the most half in a city of 700 folks in rural Idaho and felt like an outsider after discovering I used to be homosexual in my early adolescence. Throughout my formative teenage years, I used to be confronted with a selection, to adapt to the standard masculine tradition of the Western United States — one outlined by violence and destruction — or to run away and create my very own sense of belonging. It’s by this wrestle that my relationship with the concept of place emerges, and I query the persistence of the mythology of the West. It’s this pressure between ecstasy and worry that I hope to convey in my image-making.”
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