Landscapes embody memory. The earth is imprinted with traces of all living things, the birth and transformation of geological bodies, as well as the more ephemeral vestiges left by weather, water, light and wind. Landscape is, effectively, constituted by the living and dying of such countless beings, both human and other-than-human, through all of deep time. This memory is not an abstraction. Tree rings, fossils, and air bubbles encased in ancient ice are all examples of how the land remembers. But the land is also home to the spectral and the invisible. Bodies are buried and many signs of life are withheld from view. How can we make contact with and understand what we feel but cannot see in the land? "Being in the Land" is a series of photo-based images inspired by my desire to make contact with the memory and intelligence embodied by landscapes. Through the creation of these images, I hope to cultivate empathy and solidarity with beings and forces otherwise lost or unknown.