About the book:
Through a journey along her homeland of coastal Northern California, returning to places that first evoked her sense of imagination, trust, and self-reliance, Shannon sets out to collaborate with her lived experience. Using the lens of phenomenology, she engages the sensory body, observation, and memory as a means to examine the paradox of modernity and wisdom. Attending closely to the way perception is inherently subjective, Shannon asks the question of how what we see mirrors what we attend to. The resulting body of work uncovers an inconsolable longing for connection amidst a perpetual state of change and transition.
Through her collection of large-format photographs and lyrical-narrative essays, she calls upon the textures of beauty and loss, intrinsically intertwined, to speak through the terrain.