To photograph is to align the eye, the mind, and the heart.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Anyone can take pictures. What’s difficult is thinking about them, organizing them and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That’s really where the work of the artist begins.
— Lewis Baltz
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
— Maya Angelou
Why do you want to make a picture that has been seen 1000 times?
— Keith Carter
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
— Elliott Erwitt
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
— Paul Klee
These images explore the architecture of the College of Southern Nevada’s three campuses—North Las Vegas, West Charleston and Henderson—through a lens of abstraction and discovery. The modern lines of concrete, glass and steel are pulled from their context, revealing fragments that echo the learning process itself: detailed, focused and layered.
In isolating these architectural elements, the photographs shift from documentation to interpretation. Like students immersed in study, we begin to notice what is often overlooked—the unseen within the seen. Shapes, surfaces and light become visual metaphors for thought, inquiry and transformation.
These spaces are more than structures. They hold hope. They frame beginnings. They contain movement toward something greater. Just as students gather fragments of knowledge to build their future selves, these images trace a quiet path through form, memory and momentum—each line a departure, each frame a step forward.
“This project is supported in part by the Nevada
Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.”
