On a trip to rural Ontario a year ago, I found myself fascinated by the textures and colors of barns in various states of decay. As I began photographing, I saw geometric forms and fields that I had not expected. Experimenting with my eye on the viewfinder led to a technique I used in many of the images: redefining vertical and horizontal based on a linear element of the subject which was originally at an angle to the horizon. This became especially interesting when applied to subjects that had sagged with age away from right angles. As I photographed for this series I found interesting compositions not only in barns but in the objects and animals that surround them: plastic-wrapped bales of hay, faces of cows and horses, propane tanks; photographs of these subjects have made it into this series as well. While I was focussing above all on the visual content of the images as I framed them, I find that on second viewing many of the photographs are fascinating for the facts that are absent from the frame: the history and stories of the people who built, used, and in some cases, left these buildings to disintegrate.