World's End

World's End

World's End is a small peninsula, a series of low hills and salt marshes, that projects out into Boston Harbor. It has been and almost been many things. It was a farm, then a never-developed subdivision, with its roads and lawns laid out by landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. By some quirk, it was shortlisted for the UN headquarters, then briefly considered a potential location for a nuclear power plant. The farm is gone and the UN is in New York City, but Olmsted's landscape, simultaneously wild and tamed, remains. Perhaps that is why this series channels something of the aesthetic of 19th century American landscape paintings; where humans, nature and light intertwine into something, if not sublime (see the somewhat overwrought Hudson River School!) - then autumnal and contemplative.