Indianapolis-born and New York City-based photographerDaniel Kuklaspent last March living in Joshua Tree National Park in southern California as part of an artists residency.
While hiking and driving, he would catch glimpses of the border where the Sonoran Desert met the high Mojave.
In the ecological sciences, the border space created by the meeting of distinct ecosystems is referred to as the edge effect.
To document this unique confluence of terrains, Kukla took a large mirror and painters easel into the wilderness and captured opposing elements within the environment.
Using a single visual plane, this series of images unifies the play of temporal phenomena, contrasts of color and texture, and natural interactions of the environment itself.
His photo project has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Geographic and many more.
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