Since the beginning of 2026 I’ve been exploring the Red Cliffs Desert Preserve at the base of the continent’s largest laccolith, Pine Valley Mountain. I call this place The Shift because it has been the punctuation of a new direction I’ve been taking my life for the last year, a direction infused in my meditation there, my land offerings, and Jack’s feral sprints through the sage and creosote.

The mountain has been a fixture in my life during my most troubled times and had become too much of a reminder of those days, instead of time spent on other trajectories. But, that’s changed for me now, and not without the help of the film plane in capturing this collection of images.