All structures are temporary--all beings and non-beings sail through time and space within periods of growth, erosion, decay, collapse, disintegration, re-formation or rebirth.  Fern fronds, rock, ice, a flower petal, the surface of a stream, a seed, society, a nation--none will last forever and all today are transforming into something else.

Through this series of photographs I am attempting to statically capture subjects either undergoing structural transition or in ways that represent the transitions.  I approach most of my subjects with the eye of a documentarian, wanting to capture it's environment, surfaces, forms and colors only as they are.  At times this approach leads me away from classical editorial depiction into something slightly different.  I believe, however, that the subjects and their details should ultimately speak for themselves.

Ilya Prigogone, the Russian physicist, speaks of dissipative structures, forms that self-organize within dynamic systems but that eventually fall apart, a whirlpool being the illustrative example. I think all structures fall within this category, given time.