HANNA COLLINS NOAH PURIFOY

In the last fifteen years of his life Purifoy lived in the Mojave Desert where he created large-scale sculptures spread over ten acr es. On visiting this site Hannah Collins made a series of exquisite black-andwhite photographic studies of Purifoys work. Her rigor ous aesthetic stance is unwittingly reminiscent of the formality of Walker Evans, who would have greatly appreciated Purifoys trans formation of discarded materials into grand yet vernacular forms.