In 2016, I embarked on a three-year collaborative project with Peter Large (drawings) to bring an artist's perspective to traces of earlier rural life in Eastern Ontario.  Our images told the stories of working people in their daily lives through images of their houses, barns, farm equipment, cheese factories, stone walls, and their churches and cemeteries.  Only my images are displayed here. In these images, my intention was to create a sense of things past, often with an unknown history and a sense of mystery.  I wanted to not only capture the texture of the subject in my images, but also to search for the texture of life in the past.  I chose to over-expose some of my images to suggest the eventual disintegration and disappearance of a building or piece of farm equipment into the landscape.