A black and white photo of a garden inside a fence. The left side of the fence is bent around a post that makes a corner, where it goes to the back. The right side of the fence is rounded around a tree that is leaning outward from the garden. There is a house in the distance on the right side.

This collection, American Wilderness, captures the strange reality of industrialized areas and road systems—the combative relationship between nature and human created structures. While this idea isn’t unique to Gilbert, his approach to capturing details of shadow created by a flower head or crack in a cement sidewalk brings an intimate charm to mundane subjects. He focuses on the areas that are common and taken for granted, like the sides of highways, forests at the edges of suburban backyards, or fallen trees in the dead of winter, and creates something out of the mundane landscape of the American citizen’s day-to-day experience.