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The New Standing Stones
My series, “The New Standing Stones,” is inspired by thoughts of my great-great-grandfather who comes to mind whenever I drive through the farming communities of Southern Ontario. In 1855, he left his home in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, an area rich with ancient standing stones. He arrived in Perth County, where he and his fellow immigrants cleared the land and constructed another kind of standing stone: the now ubiquitous farm silo. Reflecting on him prompts me to capture these giants, who are outstanding in their field.
I have now photographed over 50 silos that pay tribute to the courage, hard work, and sacrifice the immigrants to this land made in building their new world. Perhaps those men and women raised their new standing stones as a tribute to the ancient stones they left behind.
