Bryan Schutmaat’s series “Grays the Mountain Sends” is a constellation of fading mining towns in and around the Rocky Mountains constructed from still lifes, portraiture and landscapes.

Schutmaat calls the project “a meditation on small-town life, the landscape and more importantly, the inner landscapes of common men.”

The American Dream has faded into history and the myth of the Manifest Destiny for these miners. The past weighs on the present almost to the point of haunting.