Made at Civil War battlefields across the Mid-Atlantic, Signs of Battle examines how history is staged and interpreted in the American landscape.

The photographs focus on monuments, fences, plaques, roads, museum displays, and interpretive signs — the structures through which former combat zones are turned into public memory. Completed in 2007 as my MFA thesis, the project marks an early version of a question that still runs through my work: how public places perform meaning, and what the photograph can reveal when that performance starts to fray.