There is no Nat Turner memorial in Southampton County. No museum or documentation center. There are only fragments of buildings, and Turner’s sword remains under lock and key in the county courthouse. Primarily, there is the landscape, largely frozen in time, as memorial in itself. How do you photograph that which is missing? How do you fill in the gaps in the story? In the picture above, somewhere along the trail of Turner’s path of righteous destruction, a grove of mature trees marks the location where a farmhouse once stood. Sometimes absence and presence blend into one another, and the past and present conjoin and occupy the same ground.