Once, I passed barns without a glance. Now I notice these ordinary structures for the extraordinary variety of architecture from unnoted architects and for being stalwarts of the rural. When all else falls the barn stands. 

The Roundup barns encircle to represent shelter, protection, and endurance. They enclose and embrace in itself the landscape. They, like people, are both individual and part of a larger landscape. 

These are all Arkansas barns captured in my haunts about the state as I scan ever back and forth, looking for gems to photograph. Some were easily found and accessible. Others I can add my own story to their history.  

To act easily and quickly in sometimes sudden stops in the middle of nowhere to capture barns, I use a non-professional Canon EOS M5 camera and basic lenses. Once I take my barns home, each one comes down to several decisions using Photoshop and Lightroom to bring out the barns natural textures and colors, what part of the photo needs to be creamed out to create the empty sky space surrounding each final project, what part of the barn do I leave in color, carefully outlining the details to be left alone, how to best represent the rest in black and white so it is not completely lost when I finally “encircle” the barns using an app not typically intended for professional art. 

They were shortlisted in the Siena Creative Awards and Refuge won 1st in the multi-state 12th Annual Newport Delta Awards. Many of them are currently awaiting results in online international competitions. Their non-abstract counterparts Honor Guard won 2022 Monovisions Awards Honorable Mention for Architectural Series.  

The series shows well individually or together in 12” prints.

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