This photographic essay explores the complex, contradictory landscape of the American prairie, shifting past traditional, romanticized representations to document its secretive and covert infrastructures. Drawing a historical line back to Nathaniel Hawthorne's observation of a train whistle piercing the quiet pastoral garden, this project examines how technology in the landscape evolved from an externalized, audible force into a secretly buried network of extreme technological power.

Over 1,500 missile silos are embedded across the United States, representing the ultimate rural machine that transformed bucolic farmland into Cold War-era fields of nuclearization. Captured in a series of photographs from Wyoming, these decommissioned and active underground silos reveal a deep architectural tension between the visible banality of the rural horizon and the hidden, massive cultural weight buried directly beneath the eart