Territory Beyond

All images on this website are in the Gregg Museum of Visual Arts & Design. Additionally, many images made after 1973 are in the Amon Carter Collection some of which were subsequently published also in a monograph by Duke Press, Borrowed Time: Photographs of Caroline Vaughan, Durham and London, 1996 (these images the Duke Press has required me to signify and will be marked as BT). Many of the landscape and nude images were collected in 1978 and published in 1993 in the Amon Carter Museum Catalogue of Photography prior to the Duke Press monograph and will be noted as AMC if they were not published in the Duke book.

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Smoke and Mirrors, Our Fiduciary System Greensboro, NC,

Moonrise, The Charles River, Cambridge, MA,

Honda, Durham, NC,

Pocket Basin, Yellowstone, Wyoming,

Church, Golden, New Mexico

Petraglyph, Three Rivers Mooonrise, NM

Jemez, Hot Springs, NM

Buffalo Junction, VA

Dying arts like hog slaughters are occuring less often as larger farms now dominate the template of America. Remnants left behind such as the broken glass also remind us of objects that were useful that are now broken. I see it as a face which might reflect an interior subconscious fragment from my past.

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Orange County, NC ,

Person County, NC

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Gomez Park, FL

Little Havana, Cigar Factory, FL

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Tornado, Orange County, NC,

Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco, OH

McDowell County, NC,

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Owl face, Orange County, NC,

The spontaneity of shooting with an iPhone meant I could carry it in my pocket whenever I went out for a walk. Often I would find graffiti or patterns in a floor in grocery stores or metal trolleys at Home Depot that had weathered for years outside (see abstract images). On a walk down the Occoneechee Speedway which had once been a race track now had a walking trail with several distressed cars. I found this face on a rust wall.

Mar-A- Lago, Orange County, NC,

Wandering through the woods I often find artifacts of personal expression that could be considered outsider art. In some back or side yards I discover projects that are not yet completed such as this throne plastic chair I nicknamed.

Orange County offers historic homes that are well maintained in the Historic District of Hillsborough. I also discovered a wide range of homes, barns, silos, dead cars and a place where school busses go to die. My father, born on a farm in Granville County, NC, later earned a degree in Engineering from Duke. When I was born, he worked for Wright Machinery as a traveling salesman. My fascination for farms, barns, things hidden in the woods and mechanical objects abandoned in the woods stems from my relationship with my father.

Orange County, NC

Orange County, NC

Antediluvian Dream, False Bay, San Juan Islands, WA AMC, BT

I never asked a model to do anything I was not willing to do myself. I often posed nude and asked a graduate student to trip the shutter. I wanted to make this image because of my paralyzing fear of snakes.The "snakes" were kelp, a prominent feature surrounding the island. Wainwright had two graduate students studying at Friday Harbor Laboratories known as a mecca for marine invertebrate zoology on the island.

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