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The Preservation of Fleeting Moments
A Photographic Essay by Adrienne DeBoer

My artistic vision stems from a compulsion to preserve memories.
I fear that these moments, objects and people, could be gone within the briefness of a fleeting moment.
I feel compelled to create a memory that will be transformed into the tangible before it is too late.

Captured in the landscapes of South Dakota, these images represent an adult reconfiguration from childhood,
permitting perceptions to be formed through nostalgia, cynicism, and reality.
The barren landscapes and pristine prairies of the Midwest divide the living and the desolate.

Pulverized by time, a collection of memories and narratives that exist within each inch of the ground,
reflecting a history of recollections and imprints that is hard to define. Most of the photographs originate
from what I believe to be a subtle truth, embroidered with an undertone of darkness and humor.

This series is an investigation of rituals juxtaposed with the traditional American vernacular.
The effect is the visual transformation of a mundane environment into a theater. I am
exploring monotonous moments and creating bizarre characters that seem to have been dropped off somewhere
between the farm and a pseudo city, leaving their minds and any sense of reality far in the distance.
The people in South Dakota are more fucked up than you think.