Introduction.

My name is Christopher Boone. To the right is a photograph I took of myself, with a fallen Douglas-fir I met on the Hoh River Trail. The tree died of natural causes. More about that later.

About Hypsography.

Hypsography is an experimental project of mine — an ongoing investigation into patterns and processes. An exploration into how to represent phenomena that are fundamentally time-based in forms that are accurate, yet not themselves intrinsically tied to change over time.

In other words: An attempt to be precisely real, while preserving the abstract. To put it slightly differently, Hypsography is a field guide to the world.

About Ashland.

Currently I live and work in Ashland, a small town on the Oregon side of the Klamath–Siskiyou bioregion. The water here is clean, there are mountains on both sides of the valley, and it rains too much.

The World Wildlife Fund describes this area as “one of Earth’s most extraordinary expressions of temperate biodiversity”. They also summarize the bioregion’s conservation status as “critical / endangered”.

Contact information.

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