On outer Cape Cod near Provincetown is a place known as the backshore. Taking a walk across the exquisite dunes found there, they end when one arrives at the open Atlantic.

The history of these dunes is not common knowledge.  Early settlers decimated the forest that once covered them for their own use.  Without roots holding the soil in place, relentless Cape winds created the dunes as we know them today.

Upon reaching the shoreline, it is not unusual to survey plastic litter of all descriptions. But this time there will be no clean sweep made by the winds making these non-biodegradable materials conveniently disappear.

Combining images of pristine dunes with those of the plastic refuse often photographed in such a way not easily identified, these photographs could be described as conventionally pretty pictures of an ugly reality.  

The series, Idyllic Landscape intends to provoke questions about possible consequences of our present-day mistakes.