SomersaultInspired by his daughters entrance into adulthood and her imminent departure from home, Raymond Meeks studies the centrifugal forces of the places we live how they anchor us, repel us, and return to us through scenes that appear both fragile and immovable. In these photographs, gardens give way to thicket, houses are suspended on stacked railroad ties, and telephone wires and train lines suggest the networks we build to find our way through the worlds

and made the best of what we were dealt

In the end

Using a large format tripod mounted camera and a unique positive/negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative

the Memphis Group's designs

She was both lost and reborn

he asked a cross section of the populations of these communities to pose for him

and stunning detail

fluctuating rhythm

a procession of figures

or what architect Rem Koolhaas famously referred to as "junkspace

and Nebraska—the bird ultimately proved elusive

This book illuminates his thoughts