Influenced by the contrast between my home city of San Francisco and my explorations throughout the American West, namely Montana, Dear Montana is a critique and contemplation of life in rural America. Working solely with analog film, the series embraces the roughness and unpredictability of the medium and applies it to the confusion I feel living here. Examining, and simultaneously scrutinizing, the relationships both Americans and Montanans hold with their surrounding landscapes—both natural and man made, my series tells the tale of a Montana that tries to display her natural beauty amidst struggling economies and lifestyles that refuse to progress. An ever-changing region, Montana can only be identified throughout time by the people who hold its vastness, mundanity, and uniqueness so dear. This is the Montana I explore.