White Water Nash

This photograph captures a quiet scene in a secluded rural location in the Appalachian Mountains, near the intersection of western North Carolina, southwestern Virginia, and Tennessee. Though the photograph is absent of any figures, it explores humanity’s relationship to nature, a common theme in Uzzle’s work. Taken with an 8 x 10 camera on a late fall day, the large-format, vertical image places viewers within the forested space, leaving them to contemplate the rushing creek and rusting cars as markers of passing time. The Nash of the title refers to Nash Motors Company, maker of the abandoned automobiles, which went out of business in 1954, another indication of time gone by.