"In the desert, there is everything and there is nothing."
— Honoré de Balzac

Desert Bones is a long-term documentary photography project exploring what the Sonoran and Mojave deserts preserve, and what they destroy. Shot in black and white, as well as color, the series catalogues found objects, animal remains, plant remains, abandoned furniture, rusted hardware, crumbling structures, left where they fell and slowly claimed by time and heat. These are not ruins in the romantic sense. They are simply things that outlasted their usefulness and were left behind. The desert keeps them anyway.

old roots from a fallen tree in black and white
close up of a dead tree
Saguaro skeleton
One dead ocotillo next to one live ocotillo
a fallen saguaro
lone ball on an abandoned playground
old baseball on the sidewalk of an abandoned school
an old shot out gas station sign in the Sonoran desert
Old El Rancho sign in an abandoned motel
another abandoned sign in between two palm trees.
a shot up old rusted gas can found out in the Sonoran Desert
another rusted gas can found in the Sonoran Desert
an old rusted clamp found abandoned in the desert
a white chair just off the trail on a mountain in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve
An old box springs found in the desert
a single cement square found in the desert
an old abandoned building near the Peralta trail
An abandoned school bus near Navajo Nation
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