Daniel Fernandez’s second photographic body of work, Crows and Ravens, forms as an inquiry into the epistemological frameworks through which landscape becomes representative of emotional and cultural paradigms. The two central geographic sectors—the Mayacamas Mountains to the west and the Vaca Mountains to the east—anchor the work. These ranges not only situate the images physically but serve as conduits for a visual language shaped by tradition, historiography, power, and sentience, unfolding across personal and interpersonal experience.

Soon to contain nearly 50 photographs, the series presents a variety of emotional states, moments, and evidentiary gestures—each image marking the contingencies of a world continually articulating itself. The images begin as a sustained inquiry into the American Viticultural Areas, with the use of the landscape representing the formation of tradition and the evidence of environment in photographs. Furthermore, the investigation extends into the lived realities of immigrated home-life and the layered emotional relationships we hold closely to land—not just as landscape, but with those who inhabit the landscape alongside us. The images celebrate the history of the landscape, while also revealing the evocative side of humans and the world.