AMERICAN MYSTIC

I ran into the photographs of Patrick O'Hare on a recent visit to PS1 in Queens. I've seem severals attempts to reconcile the strange collision of american construction and the broad grandeur of nature. But rarely have these two divergent elements been so elegantly married. The photographs of O'Hare bring us right to the border, right to the weird, fuzzy edge of man's ambition and nature's abandon. O'Hare's photos feel like the eyes of a modern Walt Whitman, a romantic, yet boldly unflinching view of what America has wrought. View more photographs at patrickohare.com.