In 2014, I quit my job and took a one-way flight to Dar es Salaam.

For a year, I wandered across the African continent, encountering buildings and infrastructure projects being constructed by Chinese companies. It was a time of dramatic change - the creation of an abstract future yet to unfold.

Where these landscapes were once firm beneath my feet, they have now faded into memory. Photographs I’ve taken have become individual pieces, each with their own meaning: an unfinished concrete pier, a lone guard in a housing development, new machinery in a pristine forest - like reflections of civilization with the contradictions and complexities of an increasingly connected world laid bare.

I still think back to this time in my life—a time of uncertainty, youth, and boundless possibility.

2014