Being a photographer has made me sensitive to color casts. In color photography, photographers use a tool called a "color print viewing filter" for evaluating images and making exposure adjustments. Color print viewing kits contain six filters: red, cyan, green, magenta, yellow, and blue, with each filter containing three windows of varying color density. In the lab, photographers hold these filters up against their prints to identify color casts so they can neutralize the color in their prints.

After years of visually assessing images in this manner, I began to find myself noting the color cast of sunlight out in the natural world. Instead of thinking, “Wow, what a beautiful day,” I would be thinking, “Wow, it’s really cyan out today.” A Man In Nature depicts the absurd act of examining nature and not finding it to be “correct” enough. It speaks to a feeling of estrangement from the natural world, where one is more accustomed to looking at “perfected” photographs of natural beauty than experiencing it firsthand. A Man In Nature  consists of six photographs depicting a man attempting to color correct the natural world, one for each of the six viewing filters.