"...limestone mills fascinate me, there I find the two ingredients that attract me to black and white photography: light and imagination; mixed with powerful forms, startling textures, huge bizarre spaces, detached human figures as well as suggestions of people recently departed. Everything is coated with a fine layer of limestone dust which emphasizes these features..."
Almost all of Southern Indiana sits on a bedrock of solid limestone. Quarrying and cutting this bedrock has been the main industry in this region for over one hundred years.