A Landscape of Things documents a journey through peripheral areas of Southern California. Neither urban nor rural, such places have culturally payed a subordinate role within the process of modernization. Not despite, but precisely because of its blurred boundaries the periphery reveals the debris and traces of an ecology of things, that are deeply intertwined. Agricultural production sites within desert dunes, interrupted by industrial wastelands, next to national parks, ghost towns and gas stations below freeways. The project critically revisits the myth of endlessness in the american west, not as a giant (empty) interior that can be occupied at will, but instead as assembly of pre-existing conditions, with all their uncomfortable overlaps and entangled realities. Blurring the boundaries between them, dissolving the conceptual necessity for foreground and background, it leaves us with a messy reality, or rather--a landscape of things.