Vistas (2019–2021) is a series of hand-painted photographs featuring disembodied human shadows within U.S. national parks, discovered through Google Maps. These images are extracted from user-generated interactive views uploaded to Maps, where artificial intelligence automatically removes physical bodies. What remains are human shadows, shaped by both natural sunlight and algorithmic intervention. Capturing only these distorted imprints of photographers etched onto the landscape, the series traces digital remnants of human presence. It raises questions about our evolving relationship with nature, the widening gap between lived and virtual experience, and the ways AI autonomously perceives and processes images.

The images are hand-colored in reference to early twentieth-century picture postcards of landscapes. Once considered a way of infusing photographs with life, hand-coloring was often performed anonymously by women. The form of these pictures draws influence from a time when humans dreamed of experiencing the landmarks of a beautiful natural world and are made now in a time when we hope the natural world will survive our occupation of it. As modern living continually draws us further from our origins, Vistas explores what the landscape means to us now.