“WORLD VIEW is intended to be seen as a moral imperative functioning outside the realm of the ‘natural’ landscape genre. This genre finds its substantiation in the guise of art historical referencing and in its display of a veneer of authentic experience. These qualities WORLD VIEW finds to be a betrayal of basic values…”
[Ericka Beckman] “Industrial Series is an open series begun in 1984 and is my first photographic project. I wanted to build an industrial vernacular out of the dynamics of moving architectural and mechanical elements. This project meant juxta-posing [sic] the industrial elements of the past with those of the future, combining high-tech and low-tech ideas…”