published by General Things Press
November 2024
"Northwest South Road" by Nat Ware was published in 2024 by General Things Press. The small risographed perfect bound book is 81 pages long, and about 4 1/2" x 5 1/2". The work is composed of photographs taken by Ware during a return trip to their family's home in August 2023. The images feature roadside textures, blackberry bushes at night, birds, and shifting light. The photos resist the notion of landscape as a static subject. Instead, they propose a different kind of record: one grounded in motion, attention, and memory. These are not definitive views, but passing ones, and the photographic frame offers both clarity and interruption. The camera becomes a participant in the landscape rather than a tool of capture. The photographs operate simultaneously as documentation and notation—marking both external details and internal rhythms. Here, the act of looking is inseparable from the terrain itself: slow, searching, and subject to change. Northwest South Road invites viewers into a geography shaped not just by location, but by return, by the way memory travels through space, and how the familiar continues to shift beneath the surface of close observation.