In 2003, I took my camera to an abandoned resort town in Salton Sea, California. I came across an old tennis court at the North Shore Motel. The photograph I took there became the foundation of a project that evolved six years later. I became interested in photographing the rectilinear quality of tennis courts and the way they merge with surrounding landscapes. I thought of the camera as a piece of survey equipment - reconstructed the same position on courts around the country - situated myself on center mark on the baseline and used the same camera, film and tripod height for all the photographs. I visited nearly 80 locations and only came across two people on these courts - one man making a repair, and another man sleeping. The courts were in poor condition, but the foundation had not disappeared. They were able to tell an archaeological story. I returned to the Salton Sea in 2009 to revisit the location that had inspired the project and found the North Shore Motel had been razed, and the pool had been filled in. The only thing that remained was the tennis court
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