I question what it means to personalize, and admittedly feminize, the tropes that have been established within the historic foundation of landscape photography. The landscape has been a symbol of personal identity through quest throughout history, and photography has served as an essential mechanism in the construction and manipulation of this ideal. I want to know what it means to reverse that dominance by representing an empowered landscape. I use the established tropes of landscape photography to create an analogy of internal place and embodied location. The landscapes I photograph are not specific to a site; they are a mark of the future and the past in a present moment that is neither. My images represent unfulfilled longing, the impossible journey, false security, or a simple sense of wonder.