Jon Scott Anderson's work is connected to a long lineage of landscape-based work. With Classical Chinese painting’s aesthetics that balance the polarities of near and far and empty and full as essential to a vision of the world, and with how the Japanese garden constructs and re-sets elements poised between the natural and the composed.

Each image is realized by working it much like a painting so as the iconic character of the photographic subject of grass, vine, etc. lessens they become more about a response to the pattern languages found in the landscape. Each image or page in the “books” builds a narrative that share the two defining characteristics of written Classical Chinese poetry , graphic form and empty grammar. Read together like kanji characters in a poem, each image re-describes a place where all things rise and pass away with the seasons. They speak with the formal gesture of a calligraphy character while engaging the viewer in a dialectic between presence and absence.

Anderson's background in painting (Kansas City Art Institute, BFA) and in filmmaking (Syracuse University, M.F.A.) inform these images. Anderson has exhibited his films, videos and photography internationally with one person shows in New York City, Kansas City and Tokyo. His photos are in the corporate collections of: Sprint Corporation, Capital One Services, Inc., Lathrop & Gage, Emprise Bank, Kearney Commercial Bank, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Spenser Fane Britt & Browne, as well as many private collections.