Responding to three years of pandemic uncertainty Sanctuary / Purgatory arose from the simple demand: 'stay away from people'. Retreating to state parks and nature preserves to photograph, a different kind of research emerged. A research contemplating massive arcs of time, human interaction with the natural world and ultimately that world itself, on its own terms, not for human beautification or human pleasure. “Sanctuary’ originates from a surprise visit to the Bay Beach Nature Center in Green Bay, WI where injured raptors are rehabilitated and live out their lives in human made enclosures. ‘Purgatory’ responds to the compounded global crises in the past three years, the inability to move on, and a turn to the natural world to observe another scale of time.