“My work in search of
subject matter has taken me on seemingly every road, parkway, thruway, highway,
freeway and turnpike between the coasts and beyond as I traverse the American
landscape.” Accompanied by John McPhee’s book, Annals of the Former World, a literary dissection of the history of
the continent, Sambunaris set out on a cross-country journey, following
Interstate 80 for 11,000 miles over 12 weeks to explore the intersection of
civilization, geology, and natural history in the United States. 

 



Wendover,
Utah captures the
stubborn, wounded beauty of the landscape in the face of strip-mining, fires,
and urban sprawl. The landscape is “ubiquitous and familiar” to the region, but
they appear as “anomalies to the ordinary eye.” 
Her landscape photographs speak to both the country’s geological
evolution as well as to its embrace of Manifest Destiny.