Sunrise brings form to the farms here in Leelanau County where the sweep of wind across the dunes is the music of antiquity. Ten thousand years ago, the last glacier left deposits of quartz over a mile high, ground through the millennia to sand by the weight of an ice sheet, creating in its retreat the largest area of “lake” dunes on earth.

Mimicking undulating sine waves, continually recast by the winds, the dune fields advanced across Michigan providing a footing for timber, orchards, crops, cattle and wildlife. Traveling through these mountainous mounds one senses the mutability of time on the landscape, like endless rhythms coalescing into an ensemble, not of time only but a harmony of the trees, grass, sand and water. Like ancient tumuli marking lives, these migrating dunes honor a continuous narrative of the past.

Year: 2010
Location: Suttons Bay, Michigan
Collector’s Edition of 10
Dimensions: 15" × 23"